Re: nelp needed
On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 22:51:41 -0400
mark acierno <acierno@pocketdvm.com> wrote:
> Ok as you will all quickly figure out - i'm new to this!
>
> For starters I have a sun ultra 2 running debian 3r2.
>
> I started out wanting to install shapelib since Xastir ( a ham radio program)
> uses this library. So I downloaded it and then tried to install it. But time
> after time I ran into compatibility / update issues. (Lib6, had a problem
> with libshpl which needed an update of another file ect. ect) I I went to
> the Debian web page and saw that there was an update cd. So I downloaded it,
> burned a cd-rom and installed it on my Ultra 2. I ran apt-cdrom and put in
> the update disk. I ran dselect and went through the steps updating certain
> software (non of which see to be helpful in running shapelib). The problem is
> now that the package manager in genome will not not launch! it looks like it
> will start up but then with out so much as an error message - it quits!
Is there a reason you can't upgrade to sarge? An apt-cache search reveals xastir 1.3.2 is available as a .deb in Sarge, which would be much easier; as all of it's dependencies are met automatically. :-)
Provided your Sparc is a desktop machine for playing and not a server, which I would assume since you're trying to put an Xwindows program on it, there's not really much of a reason to avoid the upgrade to Sarge. I did a clean install on a Sun Ultra 10 a couple weeks ago; so far it's working great.
HTH,
Jacob
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