James Steward<stewardje@netscape.net> wrote: > I recently downloaded VariCAD for Debian 3.0 for a trial run. Is that a free trial that anyone could try? > It is supplied as a .deb package and I simply used a dpkg -i > varicad....deb command to install. dpkg complained that there were > missing dependencies for kdelibs3. Could you post the 'dpkg --info *.deb' output? That would list the Depends: header and we would be able to see exactly what it depends upon. I suspect there is a problem there. > I have the kdelibs4 installed, so I thought well I'll install the > kdelibs3 as well. No way. Where did you install kdelibs4 from? Debian 'unstable'? Or a 'stable' backport? > dselect was quite clear that this was a bad idea. The packages list themselves as conflicting. APT is just doing what it can with the resulting conflicting rules it is given. > I ended up unpacking the kdelib3 .deb package manually and moved the > libraries into the /usr/lib directory, forced the install of VariCAD > and after an ldconfig, VariCAD starts and runs but SEGVs on > shutdown. Everything else runs as before - no problem. I might suggest using LD_LIBRARY_PATH and putting all of the libraries varicad needs into a private directory. But I am going to wait until we see the results of the package dependencies. I suspect it will need several specific versions of libraries. As long as libc is not one of them you can make this work fairly easily using LD_LIBRARY_PATH to access the libraries in your private cubby. Bob
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