Re: nelp needed
On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 23:59:41 -0500
Jacob S <stormspotter@6Texans.net> wrote:
> 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.
Yikes! Sorry about the lack of line-wrapping. I had to do a new install
of Sarge on my desktop (x86) machine the other day and evidently I
don't have Sylpheed configured properly yet.
Jacob
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