On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 11:28:18AM -0700, Sunburned Surveyor wrote: > I'm having some trouble installing a package. I think I might be > totally missing something here, but I can't figure it out. I thought > I'd ask for some help. > > I'm trying to get Subclipse to work in Eclipse with a local > repository. To do this I need to have the latest version of the > libsvn-javahl Debian package installed. The Subclipse team is no > longer preparing this package, but someone else has put together an > alternate package that does the trick. > > The original deb is named "libsvn-javahl_1.2.3dfsg1-3_i386.deb", and > it is currently installed. > > The alternate package is named > "libsvn-javahl_1.2.0-1.ggtools.1_i386.deb". I placed this deb on my > local hard drive, and then ran dpkg-scanpackages. > > However, the alternate package is not showing up in Synaptic. When I > try to use apt to install it tells me the version of libsvn-javahl is > already current. > > I think the problem may be with the similarity in the package names. > Is this correct? Do I need to uninstall the original package before I > can install the alternate? > > Thanks, > > The Sunburned Surveyor you can certainly do that. also have you tried 'dpkg -i ...' cheers, kev -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Universal | debian.home.pipeline.com | | `. `' Operating System | go to counter.li.org and | | `- http://www.debian.org/ | be counted! #238656 | | my keysever: pgp.mit.edu | my NPO: cfsg.org |
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