Re: Installing Synaptic on Lenny KDE PPC system.

[Brian Durant <globetrotterdk@gmail.com>]

Thanks. I did this on both my G5 and my daughter's old IBM
ThinkCenter. here is what I got:

The following NEW packages will be installed:
  docbook-xml{a} libglade2-0{a} libscrollkeeper0{a} libvte-common{a}
  libvte9{a} scrollkeeper{a} sgml-base{a} sgml-data{a} synaptic xml-core{a}
The following packages are RECOMMENDED but will NOT be installed:
  deborphan gksu libgnome2-perl
0 packages upgraded, 10 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/4083kB of archives. After unpacking 15,1MB will be used.
Writing extended state information... Done

Selecting previously deselected package sgml-base.
(Reading database ... 87538 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking sgml-base (from .../sgml-base_1.26_all.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package xml-core.
Unpacking xml-core (from .../xml-core/xml-core_0.12_all.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package sgml-data.
Unpacking sgml-data (from .../sgml-data_2.0.3_all.deb) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up sgml-base (1.26) ...
Setting up xml-core (0.12) ...
Selecting previously deselected package docbook-xml.
(Reading database ... 87774 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking docbook-xml (from .../docbook-xml_4.5-6_all.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package libglade2-0.
Unpacking libglade2-0 (from .../libglade2-0_2.6.2-1_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package libscrollkeeper0.
Unpacking libscrollkeeper0 (from .../libscrollkeeper0_0.3.14-16_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package libvte-common.
Unpacking libvte-common (from .../libvte-common_0.16.14-4_all.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package libvte9.
Unpacking libvte9 (from .../vte/libvte9_0.16.14-4_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package scrollkeeper.
Unpacking scrollkeeper (from .../scrollkeeper_0.3.14-16_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package synaptic.
Unpacking synaptic (from .../synaptic_0.62.1+nmu1_i386.deb) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Processing triggers for menu ...
Setting up sgml-data (2.0.3) ...
Setting up docbook-xml (4.5-6) ...
Setting up libglade2-0 (1:2.6.2-1) ...
Setting up libscrollkeeper0 (0.3.14-16) ...
Setting up libvte-common (1:0.16.14-4) ...
Setting up libvte9 (1:0.16.14-4) ...
Setting up scrollkeeper (0.3.14-16) ...
Rebuilding the database. This may take some time.
Setting up synaptic (0.62.1+nmu1) ...
Processing triggers for menu ...
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Writing extended state information... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done

I ran a "sudo aptitude -y install --without-recommends synaptic"

Still a lot of junk installed in my opinion, but I guess it could be worse :-)

Brian