Re: ktechlab on sarge

[debian <debian@benburb.demon.co.uk>]

On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 07:55:06AM +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote:

> That site says the packages are for sarge, so you should have no
> problem.

so I thought.

> First, the site says you need three packages from there: libgtkextra,
> gpsim and ktechlab.  Obviously you need all of them and I presume you
> have used dpkg to install them all?

yes, as root I ran:

	dpkg -i package_name

it then reported the dependancy problems.  IOW, there are _many_ more dependancies than those listed on that site.

>   apt-get -u -f install

here's what happens:

#########################################################################
The following extra packages will be installed:
  exdbm gpsim
Suggested packages:
  gpsim-led gpsim-logic gpsim-lcd gpsim-doc
Recommended packages:
  gputils
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  abiword abiword-common gamix gimp gimp-svg gimp1.2 gtk2-engines-xfce jigdo
  kdeartwork kscreensaver-xsavers ktechlab libgail-common libgail17 libgimp2.0
  libglade2-0 libgnomecanvas2-0 libgnomeprintui2.2-0 libgtk2.0-0 libgtk2.0-bin
  libgtk2.0-common libgtkextra libgtkextra-dev libgtkglext1 libgtkhtml2-0
  librsvg2-2 librsvg2-bin librsvg2-common libxfcegui4-1 mozilla-browser
  mozilla-firefox mozilla-mailnews mozilla-psm mozilla-thunderbird mtr rep-gtk
  snd snd-gtk vim-gtk vimpart xfcalendar xfce4 xfce4-iconbox xfce4-mcs-manager
  xfce4-mcs-plugins xfce4-mixer xfce4-panel xfce4-session xfce4-systray
  xfce4-themes xfce4-toys xfce4-trigger-launcher xfce4-utils xfdesktop4 xffm4
  xffm4-icons xfprint4 xfwm4 xfwm4-themes xscreensaver xscreensaver-gl
  xscreensaver-nognome
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  exdbm gpsim
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 61 to remove and 11 not upgraded.
4 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 552kB of archives.
After unpacking 208MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n
#########################################################################

I do not want to uninstall any of the above.

Thanks a lot.

Joe.















> 
> which will sort out the mess.  The -u option ensures that it tells you
> what it is going to do before it starts deleting or overwriting stuff
> you want to keep.
> 
> 
> Oliver Elphick
>