Re: acme

[Paul Yeatman <pyeatman@ucsd.edu>]

Hmmm, interesting.  Well, now I don't know.  This is what I'm
basing my message on

	# apt-get -u install acme
	Reading Package Lists... Done
	Building Dependency Tree... Done
	The following packages will be REMOVED:
	  capplets gnome gnome-applets gnome-control-center gnome-core
	  gnome-desktop-environment gnome-office gnome-panel
	  gnome-panel-data gnome-terminal
	The following NEW packages will be installed:
	  acme
	0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 10 to remove and 2
	not upgraded.
	Need to get 217kB of archives.
	After unpacking 18.4MB disk space will be freed.
	Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n
	Abort.

I assumed given this that acme conflicted with "gnome" et al.  A
'dpkg -p acme' yeilds

	.
	.
	.
	Conflicts: pbbuttonsd
	.
	.
	.

however.  Your tip seems to show the problem.  'apt-get install
acme gnome' yeilds

	.
	.
	.
	The following packages have unmet dependencies:
	capplets: Conflicts: acme but 2.4.3-2 is to be installed
	.
	.
	.

Apparently "capplets" is what gives you tools to configure Gnome2
so I guess you can have one or the other.  Too bad but I guess
that's the deal.

Thanks!

Paul

->>In response to your message<<-
  --received from Chris Metzler--
>
> On Wed, 7 Jul 2004 11:29:50 -0700
> Paul Yeatman <pyeatman@ucsd.edu> wrote:
> >
> > Hi, for anyone running Sarge, the "acme" package was a cool new feature
> > to me that allowed you to set up "multimedia keys" on whatever keyboard
> > one has.  Starting with updates a couple weeks ago, "acme" now
> > conflicts with "gnome" and other foundational gnome packages.
> > Eventhough initially gnome and acme were installed together, apparently
> > now they can't be.  Just curious if anyone knows anything about this?
> 
> You can usually figure this out yourself with a little iterative use
> of apt-get.  e.g. if you try "apt-get install foo" and it tries to remove
> bar, following that up with "apt-get install foo bar" will tell you
> where the conflict is.  Sometimes you have to go a few times in, e.g.
> "apt-get foo bar" responds by trying to remove baz, so you have to do
> a "apt-get foo bar baz".  But eventually you can see what the complaint
> is.
> 
> You failed to include a transcript of your attempt at installation, but
> a qucick look at acme on packages.debian.org shows that it appears to
> depend on GNOME-ish libraries that are all present in current-enough
> versions on sarge.  Are you sure it's conflicting with GNOME?  Or is it
> simply trying to remove meta-packages that don't have any actual
> contents, like the packages "gnome" and "gnome-desktop-environment"?
> 
> -c
> 
> 
> -- 
> Chris Metzler			cmetzler@speakeasy.snip-me.net
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> 
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> have become civilized." - Chief Luther Standing Bear



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