My apologies, I forgot to cc' the list on my last reply. On Mon, Nov 17 2014, Joachim Breitner <nomeata@debian.org> wrote: >> [Snip] >> Do you mean unstable? If not, I might be a bit confused. It does make >> sense that I would have issues if they are built for stable, however. > > No, I mean stable. There should be no trace of unstable anywhere here, > should there? > Ah ok, seems I am still misunderstanding here. I understand the release path to be: unstable -> testing -> stable I read in the wiki that the oldstable gets created just before a new stable release. I'm not certain how this might affect my apt sources list . Is there anything I need to do to verify or change from oldstable to stable? My apt sources are below. >> That said, there does seem to be some evidence of a libffi5. Here is the >> output: >> >> ------ console output ------- >> # apt-get install libffi5 >> Reading package lists... Done >> Building dependency tree >> Reading state information... Done >> Package libffi5 is not available, but is referred to by another package. >> This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or >> is only available from another source >> >> E: Package 'libffi5' has no installation candidate >> >> # apt-cache show libffi5 >> N: Can't select versions from package 'libffi5' as it is purely virtual >> N: No packages found >> ------ console output ------- > > That is weird. Shouldn’t you get the package from > https://packages.debian.org/squeeze/libffi5 > if you are on oldstable? What is your /etc/apt/sources.list? > My sources.list looks something like this, ============== /etc/apt/sources.list ====================== deb http://ftp.utexas.edu/debian/ unstable main contrib deb-src http://ftp.utexas.edu/debian/ unstable main contrib deb http://ftp.utexas.edu/debian/ experimental main contrib deb-src http://ftp.utexas.edu/debian/ experimental main contrib deb http://deb.haskell.org/dailies/latest/ ./ deb-src http://deb.haskell.org/dailies/latest/ ./ deb http://deb.haskell.org/stable/ ./ deb-src http://deb.haskell.org/stable/ ./ ========================================================== Is this there a problem here? >> My other computer (unstable), which I configured the same way as my >> laptop, has libffi5-3.0.10-3 is installed but it's possible I was able >> to install it some time ago. > > That is likely a left-over from wheezy; there is no libffi5 in unstable > any more: > https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=libffi5&searchon=names&exact=1&suite=all§ion=all > I can understand this. So what would be the suggested way to work with and test out ghc HEAD? I could continue compiling it myself but testing these deb packages seemed easier. I could also try installing libffi5 manually since it seems to work on my other deb unstable computer. Thanks for all the help, -- Christopher Reichert irc: creichert gpg: C81D 18C8 862A 3618 1376 FFA5 6BFC A992 9955 929B
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