Re: gtkicq

[Jens Ritter <jens@hilbert.weh.rwth-aachen.de>]

"Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella" <zorzella@iname.com> writes:

> Hi,
> 
> I have a debian/frozen dist, and my gtkicq stopped working. I found
> out that some of the libs that it needs are not present in the system
> anymore.
> 
> $ ldd -v /usr/local/bin/gtkicq 
> ldd: version 1.9.9
> (...)
>         libgtk-1.1.so.2 => not found
>         libgdk-1.1.so.2 => not found
>         libgmodule-1.1.so.3 => not found
>         libglib-1.1.so.3 => not found
> (...)
> 
> Frozen now has newer of all these libs...
> 
> Why does debian not keep these old libs available for program that
> needs them? (oldlibs?)
> 
> Is there a way around for me?

Download the source and compile it. 
To minimize problems with dependencies bump the version to a NMU.
(Oh, sorry that was Debianspeak. Here the translation:
To minimize collisions with later uploads and to circumvent the
checking of dependencies for your personally compiled gtkicq, change
the version number to that of a non maintainer upload
(e.g. gtkicq_0.57-1 to gtkicq_0.57-1.1) edit .../debian/changelog for
this. )

HTH,

Jens 
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