woody/sid questions (was: Re: ximian 1.4 and woody)
okay...so you have me convinced.
i just got rid of all the ximian packages, deleted the ximian server from
sources-list and added sid instead...the oddyssey started there...
to install new packages i had to go through a lot of upgrading, which was
a bit tricky especially with the perl perl-modules and perl-base packages,
but somehow i sorted it all out and now here i am with a lot of software
out of sid, but there are a few things i haven't figured out yet and, it
beeing 3am (ouch) i'd be very grateful for advice =)
-my cool blackbox desktop won't load anymore...i suppose it is because the
command xsetbg got lost somewhere along the way of upgrading to
unstable...i've been browsing through dselect for some time now, to no
avail. does anyone know what package provides for the xsetbg command???
this is vital for me!
-gnumeric (along with evolution and redcarpet) depend on libgal6 which
appears to be missing ... now, i haven't made up my mind if i really want
to use those applications, but i'd like to know, just in case, what i can
do about this...
-this is a general one: i basically have testing in my sources list now,
and added unstable to it...i guess my system is basically still testing?
with a lot of packages out of unstable though. my question is: does this
make sense? or should i rather move to unstable all the way? i'm feeling
kind of awkward about this move though...so would it also make sense to
put unstable out of my sources list once i've installed all the packages i
wanted on my system and everything is working? i guess there is no real
answer to this question but since i am still new to debian, it would help
to get some advice!
thanks all!
-vester
On Mon, 28 May 2001, [ISO-8859-1] christophe barbé wrote:
> 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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