Re: Desperate Question...
On Tue, 8 Feb 2000, B.C. Computer wrote:
> Debian,
>
> I have been asking this question for a while now, on your
> newsgroups and the debian chatroom. And so far no one has even offered
> an answer. My question is this: Why is it that the gnome-apt package
> from the Potato, or Frozen, distribution is dependant on a package
> that doesn't exist and has never existed? I recently built several
> linux systems for some customers, and on the first two, gnome-apt
> installed fine, with no dependance errors. The last few came up with
> gnome-apt, a package that my customers need quite badly, having a
> dependance failure. It required libapt-pkg2.6. Yet, upon
> investigation, the libapt-pkg2.6 package does not exist, according to
> your web based package lookup tool. Is there any chance I can get this
> package, in whatever unstable state it exists? Or could I have the
> source code for this package, so that I can compile and install the
> library myself? I would really, really appreciate it. :) Thanx!
>
> Jon Rista
> archon_s@hotmail.com
Known bug (if I remember right). I just tried it, recompiling on my
woody-box works. If you want to compile you need to download the following
files (the links are found at the bottom of
http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/admin/gnome-apt.html)
http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/main/source/admin/gnome-apt_0.3.6.tar.gz
http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/main/source/admin/gnome-apt_0.3.6.dsc
then do a
dpkg-source -x gnome-apt_0.3.6.dsc
cd gnome-apt-0.3.6
dpkg-buildpackage -b -uc -rfakeroot
and that should build the package (dpkg-source and dpkg-buildpackage are
from the dpkg-dev package).
Martin
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