Re: A little confused with Netscape .deb's

[Brian Servis <servis@purdue.edu>]

*- On 22 Jun, Jason Loll wrote about "Re: A little confused with Netscape .deb's"
> 
> I tried to install netscape-base4_14 to slink and this is what I got:
> ollollo:/home/jason# dpkg -i netscape-base-4_14.deb
> (Reading database ... 46865 files and directories currently installed.)
> Preparing to replace netscape-base-4 5 (using netscape-base-4_14.deb) ...
> Unpacking replacement netscape-base-4 ...
> Update-menus: waiting for dpkg to finish(forking to background)
> Update-menus: (checking /var/lib/dpkg/lock)
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of netscape-base-4:
>  netscape-base-4 depends on libc6 (>= 2.1); however:
>   Version of libc6 on system is 2.0.7.19981211-6.
>  netscape-base-4 depends on liburi-perl; however:
>   Package liburi-perl is not installed.
> dpkg: error processing netscape-base-4 (--install):
>  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  netscape-base-4
> 

Ack!  I keep forgetting.  You *also* need to install the liburi-perl
and libwww-perl packages from unstable.  Install them at the same time
with dpkg because they have interdependencies on each other and
conflict with the versions in slink.

dpkg -i liburi-perl*.deb libwww-perl*.deb

Sorry,

-- 
Brian 
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