Re: upgrading woes (xfree and python)
On Mon, Dec 24, 2001 at 11:13:37AM -0500, Rick Pasotto wrote:
| My apt-sources is pointing to woody (upgrading from potato).
| Problem #2: I'd like to install python 2.2 but apt-get wants to also
| remove python1.5.2 which I want to retain. How can I have both on the
| system at the same time? (It also wants to remove fetchmailconf because
| it wants to remove python-tk!)
There is no package named "python1.5.2". There is, however,
"python-base", the latest version is 1.5.2-18.4. There is also a
package "python1.5" versioned 1.5.2-21.
In between potato and now there have been a number of python changes.
First python 2.0 was released, but had licensing issues (according to
Stallman). It also made some changes that have the potential to break
old software. Also python 2.1 and 2.2 have been released since then.
After the licensing issues were resolved the debian python maintainers
came up with a policy for allowing multiple simultaneous python
versions to be installed. This caused many packages with
not-quite-correct dependencies to be broken. This has been fixed with
new versions of the packages.
What you want to do is install "python2.2" and "python1.5" and let
"python-base" be removed. All python packages are versioned now (eg
python1.5-tk and python2.2-tk), and also an unversioned package is
provided that just depends on the default versioned one (currently for
python 2.1).
HTH,
-D
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