Re: package version numbers
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 04:56:30PM -0500, Rick Pasotto wrote:
> Anyway, I see that xmms is replaced by xmms2 and that qiv will upgrade
> with libglib1.2ldbl. My only remaining problem is multi-gnome-terminal,
> which is not in lenny.
If you really want to use old packages on modern debian distributions,
you can manually edit /var/lib/dpkg/status to correct dependencies.
In this case this means
cp -pai /var/lib/dpkg/status /var/lib/dpkg/status.SAVED
$EDITOR /var/lib/dpkg/status
search for libglib1.2 in the "Depends: " lines and change it to
libglib1.2 | libglib1.2ldbl
(you can also do such kind of things after a manual download of a
$PACKAGE.deb and a dpkg --force-depends -i $PACKAGE.deb )
Note that you can use archive.debian.org and/or snapshot.debian.net in
your /etc/apt/sources.list (and perhaps also adjust /etc/apt/preferences
according to man 5 apt_preferences)
Note also that that these operations are UNSUPPORTED. I do them
routinely and they work fine for me (infact, my reasons to use debian
are these kinds of extreme configurability), but: NO WARRANTY.
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