Re: installing gnome2.2, broken packages

[Antony Gelberg <antony@antgel.co.uk>]

On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 09:24:44PM -0400, James Strandboge wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 19:56, Praveen Kallakuri wrote:
> > hello,
> > 
> > i was running kde 3 on xfree 4.3 on my woody. i decided to try gnome2.2 and
> > read that it requires xfree4.2.1. so i got the binaries of xf4.2 and
> > installed the mandatory one's without overwriting my /etc and xdm/xinit
> > config files. i then bumped to 4.2.1 using its binaries using pretty much
> > the same process.
> 
> xfree86 4.3 requires freetype 2.1.3, which conflicts with fontconfig in
> the backport.  fontconfig is required by libpango1.0-0 and pango is
> required by gtk+2.0 and everything else depends on that.  So nothing
> installs.
> 
> If you have an up to date xfree86 4.3 with freetype 2.1.3 and
> fontconfig, png, and xft2 from the below sources, you will be able to
> install gnome2.2 after this evening. 
> 
> deb http://people.debian.org/~mmagallo/packages/xfree86/i386/ ./
> deb http://people.debian.org/~mmagallo/packages/fontconfig/i386/ ./
> deb http://people.debian.org/~mmagallo/packages/xft/i386/ ./
> deb http://people.debian.org/~mmagallo/packages/freetype/i386/ ./
> deb http://people.debian.org/~mmagallo/packages/libpng/i386/ ./
> deb http://people.debian.org/~mmagallo/packages/debconf/i386/ ./
> 
> gnome2.2 will install.   I fixed a dependency in pango to allow this.
> 

Great!  Can you give us a shout when it works (together with fool-proof
instructions ;) ?

Antony