Re: ximian 1.4 and woody
I understand that you want to keep ximian but I would like to convinced you
that is far from being a good thing.
They provided a quite less uptodate gnome 1.4. With ximian you are sticky
to mozilla 0.8.1 and IIRC psm isn't working.
As you noticed you get dependencies problems. They have strange habits like
crazy numbering scheme for packages : Last time I check the libnspr4
(netscpe library for mozilla) version number was not consistent with the
mozilla one but they are build from the same source.
You can have a better desktop without ximian. They do a very good job.
There red-carpet is a very good thing for the rpm's world (and perhaps for
the potato users) but as a debian (woody/sid) user you have already better
tools.
Remove Ximian from your sources.list !
Christophe
On Sun, 27 May 2001 13:57:41 vester wrote:
>
> hello,
>
> my system is debian testing/unstable and i'd still like to use ximian
> 1.4...any experiences?
>
> i mean it's working, more or less...i basically added the ximian server
> to
> my sources list and apt-get installed the packages. results: gnome is
> working as far as i can tell, with the following exceptions:
>
> -red carpet depends on packages usermode, which depends on two packages
> which don't seem to be available for woody, so i got them from potato
> instead. but when i try to start red-carpet (after the query for the root
> password pops up as usual) i get a segmentation fault...so, no
> red-carpet!
>
> -there is this general problem that the package libgnomeprint11 won't
> install because apparently it doesn't want to overwrite some files that
> have already been provided by libgnomeprint-bin -- because of the arising
> dependency issues nautilus, gnumeric and abiword won't install either!
> any
> ideas there?
>
> well, those are my main problems basically. any ideas on how to fix them?
>
> thanks all!
>
> -vester
>
>
>
>
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