Re: debian-powerpc: upcoming 2.2r3 release
Olaf Grewe wrote:
1) Communicator still doesn't work on PowerPC (I'm currently using
testing with kernel 2.4.2). That's OK because I'd prefer to use
Mozilla anyway, *but* unfortunately Mozilla M18-3 is quite old now.
The Mozilla people have made an official release (0.8) which should
probably go in stable (but probably wont) and should certainly be in
unstable/testing. I currently can not use any nternet banking
because Java and/or SSL is not supported in Mozilla M18-3 (at least
it doesn't appear so). I have installed netscape-browswer-4.6 on
stable to get this functionality but it is broked on
unstable/testing. I'd really like to see Mozilla get updated so I
can ditch using Communicator ASAP. Does the powerpc mozilla
maintainer lurk on this list ? <wink>
when I'm searching the package-list with dselect and apt-sources
pointing to testing, it shows me all the Communicator packages I need
(including smotif). Consequently it's installed and gives me all I
need. What's the problem though?
It does show up in the package lists but it *wont* install due to unmet
dependencies. I just did an 'apt-get update' this morning followed by
an 'apt-get install' communicator. This is the result is listed below.
I'd still rather have an more stable release of Mozilla rather than the
beta (M18-3) that is currently installed :) I realise that
unstable/testing is for betas but it doesn't make sense to have a beta
version in unstable/testing that is older than the stable release of the
product.
Regards,
Brendan Simon.
$ apt-get install communicator
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
communicator: Depends: communicator-smotif-47 but it is not installable
Depends: netscape-java-47 but it is not going to be installed
E: Sorry, broken packages
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