Re: gnome2.2 backport mirror has changed
On Fri, 2003-03-14 at 05:32, Simon Tod wrote:
>
> Depends: libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.2.1) but 2.0.9-1 is to be
> installed
> Depends: libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.2.1) but 1.0.5-3 is to be
> installed
>
> BUT, the new libgtk2.0-0 and libpango1.0-0 are
> definately there... so adding them, and
> libgtk2.0-common and libxft2 in which they in turn
> depend to the apt-get install line I get the unmet
> dependency
>
Take the gnome2.0 lines out of sources.list.
> libxft2: Depends: xlibs (>= 4.2.0) but 4.1.0-16 is to
> be installed
> That'll take a long time over a 56K modem (unmetered
> access... phew!) and I'm quite happy with removing all
> KDE... but is it actually going to work?!
>
kde shouldn't be removed from official woody-- but maybe be from
testing. The backport is designed to work with woody I I do not have
any testing boxes-- though others have reported success.
> Why do I need xlibs from testing when it hasn't been
> mentioned in any dicussion of this backport (I think)
> and might it be something to do with having the
> *wrong* version of xfree86 4.2.1?
You don't need xlibs from testing per se, you need xlibs >= 4.2.1 for
libxft2 to work properly (which is required by gnome2.2).
Jamie Strandboge
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