RE: Debian 1.3.1 --> 2.0: a wise move?
Johann Spies writes:
>
> Then I wanted to compile pine from the non-free disk. But there was
> no pine source. I then downloaded a binary rpm package of pine using
> my slow 14400 modem, tried to convert it by alien, but the process
> failed because of some library error in the package.
>
> Staroffice 4 would not run anymore.It complains about not being able
> to load libXt.so.6. I have important spreadsheets that I use
> Staroffice for.
>
Staroffice uses libc5. Hamm is libc6, but the developpers have done a great
job enabling use of libc5 programs as well (and tranparently). You will have
to install libc5 support (and maybe somehting more, I am not sure which
libraries staroffice4 uses, but I have it up and running at home). See the
directory binary-i386/oldlibs in your CD.
> Lyx would not run because the correct libforms package was not
> installed. It could not be found either on the Non free CD or contrib
> CD. In the end I downloaded a Xforms RPM package, converted it using
> alien and installed it, symlinked a libforms.so.0.88 library to
> libforms.so.0.86 and installed lyx with force-depends. It does not
> work satisfactorily. Lyx also complains about not finding the a4.sty
> file. I did so far not have time to find out why.
>
Take a look in the nearest Debian's mirror site. I got Lyx from mine ant it
works very well. Consider using apt package (you can get it in the unstable
distribution directory).
> XV was missing on the non-free CD.
>
Maybe it could not be shipped due to some distribution restriction. I can get
a xv from the directory
/dists/stable/non-free/binary-i386/graphics/
in the mirror next to me.
> For the first time I am using Xemacs20 - also to write this email in
> the absence of pine. It is too early to tell whether I will return to
> emacs.
>
> I still have to find out whether I will be able to continue to use
> Netscape and Mosaic on the new system. I suspect not.
>
You may need something from oldlibs section here (if your netscape is
libc5). But it runs quite well in my system.
> Maybe someone has solutions for some of my problems and maybe someone
> else will be warned that to upgrade is not just a simple problemless
> process and that productivity for at least a few days can be
> frustratingly low.
And pine source is also avaible from the non-free directory in my mirror
site.
So my last hint: *take a look in a mirror site for non-free
packages*. There are lots of non-free packages that can't be shippend in a CD
(from LSL or whatever), probably that's the case with pine, xv, etc.
Hope that helps and welcome to Hamm (it is great! And yes it was a wise
move).
Paulo.
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