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Re: Enlightenment troubles



Once upon a time, I heard Joshua Kruck say

> Hello,
> I am trying to upgrade enlightenment to the .16.5 version. when i do
> apt-get install enlightenment i get this as a response.
> 
> 
> Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
> requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
> distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
> or been moved out of Incoming.
> 
> Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
> the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
> that package should be filed.
> The following information may help to resolve the situation:
> 
> Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
>   enlightenment: Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1.93) but 2.1.3-13 is to be
> installed
>                  Depends: libfnlib0 (>= 0.5-1) but 0.4-3 is to be
> installed
>                  Depends: libungif4g (>= 4.1-1) but it is not
> installable
> E: Sorry, broken packages
> 
> I am using
> deb http://people.debian.org/~ljlane/downloads/ enlightenment/ (there
> are actually no packages located here anymore)
> deb http://people.debian.org/~ljlane/downloads/ enlightenment-cvs/

I suppose you are still using potato. These enlightenment packages were
compiled on woody box (notice from libc & libunfif4g dependency)

> I am at a loss of what to do, and beating my head against the keyboard
> dosent seem to help. Do i have to upgrade libc6 ? or is it telling me to
> downgrade? if so how do i do that. Any help would be greatley
> appreicated.

Try apt-get source enlightenment and build by your own instead. Put

deb-src http://people.debian.org/~ljlane/downloads/ enlightenment-cvs/

in your /etc/apt/source.list


Chanop
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