Re: extra apt sources, backports etc.
On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 19:39, A. Loonstra wrote:
> James Strandboge wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 15:29, A. Loonstra wrote:
> >
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>I've recently installed woody on a test system. I added the Gnome 2.2
> >>backport and the Xfree 4.2 backport. I added the following to sources.list
> >>
> >># XFree 4.2
> >>deb http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/debian woody/bunk-1 main contrib non-free
> >>deb-src http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/debian woody/bunk-1 main contrib non-free
> >># Gnome 2.2
> >>deb
> >>ftp://ftp.acc.umu.se/mirror/mirrors.evilgeniuses.org.uk/debian/backports/woo
> >>dy gnome2.2/
> >>deb-src
> >>ftp://ftp.acc.umu.se/mirror/mirrors.evilgeniuses.org.uk/debian/backports
> >>/woody gnome2.2/
> >>
> >>Installation went fine but I ran into som problems when aptitude
> >>suddenly wanted to remove a lot of packages. I managed to fix that but
> >>aptitude didn't automaticly fix broken dependencies and I had to do that
> >>by hand.
> >
> >
> > You no longer need Adrian's xfree86 4.2.1 packages as I supply them with
> > the backport. His packages are very good, and xfree86 4.2.1 are just
> > his sources recompiled on standard woody. There are a couple of small
> > patches in mine that work better with gnome2.2 at this moment as well,
> > but he may be adding those soon. If you take Adrian's lines out and
> > just use the gnome2.2 lines, you get everything you need for gnome2.2
> > and xfree86. Let me know of any conflicts in my packages.
> [snip]
>
> Well I reinstalled to machine for some more testing. I now only use your
> backport (gnome2.2) When I do apt-get install gnome gdm I get unmet
> dependencies: gnome Depends: gnucash but it is not going to be installed
> E: Sorry broken packages.
>
> Strange...
>
> When I go into aptitude and try to install 'gnome' I have 2 broken packages:
>
> libgal-data which is missing libgal23
> gnucash which is also missing libgal23
>
> Strange thing is is that I can't find the package, only the old original
> one.
This got deleted from the archive. I will upload it, but it won't be
there until after 1:00am EST tomorrow.
Jamie
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