Re: Gnome2.2 backport for Debian Woody available for download
On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 02:53:40AM -0500, James D Strandboge wrote:
> There is a build dependency in libxft2-dev that requires xlibs 4.2.1,
> however the dependency check when installing libxft2 only checks for
> xfree86 >= 4.1.0. This allows gnome2.2 to be installed with the 4.1.0
> official debs, but X won't start. This has been corrected in a new deb
> for libxft2 that requires xfree86 4.2.1, and thus prevent gnome2.2 from
> being installed. The deb should hit the mirrors tomorrow.
>
> You can use these excellent backported 4.2.1 debs:
>
> deb http://people.debian.org/~blade/woody/i386 ./
>
> Add the above to /etc/apt/sources.list
> apt-get update && apt-get upgrade
Thank you. I had a problem with this.
Can you package glade2 as well by any chance? I tried to do it myself, but
after an hour or so of struggling I realized I don't really know what I'm
doing. libgnomedb wouldn't compile for me.
Regards,
Sean
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