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Re: Trying to build nessus 1.0.5-1 on potato with woody source debs ...



On Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 06:31:19PM +0100, Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn wrote:
> > > ... and I fail. I can't figure out what I need installed (libraries),
> > > what libraries to build and in which order to build the required packages.
> > > 
> > > Kan any kind soul put me on the right track?
> > 
> > Install the .debs from unstable, if you're using i386. :)
> 
> Are you sure? What's the _libc6 version_ the nessus woody packages are
> built against? Would they really install?

Erm, I'm the maintainer, and I built and tested them on my machine which has
potato libc6.

> > > Looks like I guessed rught by myself:
> > [...]
> > 
> > To find this out, you could have just read the Build-Depends lines in
> > debian/control, or even the installation information at the web site. :)
> 
> Oh well, never mind. There's always something to learn.
> 
> One thing that is not written "in the books" though, is the order in
> which the packages are built and (dpkg) installed.

As I said, the Nessus web site should contain that info.

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