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Re: gnumeric unistallable in testing??



On Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 06:24:27PM +0930, David Purton wrote:
> On Sat, 4 Aug 2001, joe golden wrote:
> > I am running the testing branch (kernel 2.2.19).  I just ran a dselect 
> > update.
> > 
> > dselect is telling me gnumeric depends on libgal4 which "does not appear to 
> > be available."
> > 
> > Is there no running gnumeric in the testing branch and if so any 
> > recommendations on alternatives with graphs?
> 
> as someone else pointed out this will probably make its way into testing
> fairly soon.
> 
> In the mean time - you could just follow the dependency lists through
> and download the stuff by hand from unstable.

You could also put both testing and unstable in /etc/apt/sources.list,
have a look at apt_preferences(5), and set up /etc/apt/preferences to
pin your system to testing despite having unstable in sources.list too;
then you can just do 'apt-get install gnumeric/unstable'.

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]



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