Re: compiling a programm

[Philipp Bliedung <philipp.bliedung@bliedung.de>]

hello,

Thanks a lot for your help!
But now I got myself into a strange situation - I was trying to install
xlibs-package which I thought I would need for Gimp 1.2.1 but I got this
when I tried to install it :

#dpkg -i xlibs_4.0.2-1_i386.deb
Selecting previously deselected package xlibs.
dpkg: considering removing xlib6g in favor of xlibs ...
dpkg: no, cannot remove xlibs6g (--auto-deconfigure will help):
  libsmpeg0 depends on xlib6g (>=3.3.5)
        xlib6g  is to be removed.
dpkg:  regarding xlibs_4.0.2-1_i386.deb containing xlibs:
    xlibs conflicts with xlib6g  (<<4.0)
        xlib6g  (version 3.3.6-10) is installed.
dpkg: error processing xlibs_4.0.2-1_i386.deb  (--install):
    conflicting packages  - not installed xlibs
Errors were encountered while processing:
    xlibs_4.0.2-1_i3386.deb

Trying to fix it I did this:

#apt-get -f  install
Reading Package List .... Done
Building Dependency Tree ... Done
Correcting dependencies ... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
    atlas2-dev blas-dev blt-dev g++ lam2-dev libc6-dev libgc5-dev
    libgimp1.1.17-dev libgtk1.2-dbg lingtk1.2-dev libncurses5-dev
    libstdc++2.10-dev locales task-parallel-computing-dev task-tcltk-dev

    task-x-window-system tcl8.2-dev tk8.2-dev tktable-dev xlib6g-dev
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 20 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

bla .... bla .....

What can I do to fix this? BTW I'm on a potato box using the 2.2.17
kernel.
I downloaded the xlib6g-package (4.0.2-1) from testing and
libxaw6-package which it depends on too. But I can't install the new
xlib6g-package! It get's me an error - it complains that it is not a
debian archive .....
dpkg: error processing xlib6g_4.0.2-1_all.deb (--install):
    subprocess dpkg-deb --control returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
    xlib6g_4.0.2-1_all.deb

Any help appreciated !!!!
Philipp