Marc Shapiro wrote: > Erwan David wrote: > >I'd rather use gdebi for installing skype thus > >gdebi skype-install.deb will install skype and the libraries it depends on. > > I managed to install gdebi and tried to use it to install icaclient. > Unfortunately, after installing all of the required i386 libs it > then complained that it could not find nspluginwrapper. Apparently, > nspluginwrapper is available for Squeeze, but not Wheezy. It was removed. Here is the removal trail: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=671846 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=686029 > So I grabbed the .deb for Squeeze and tried to install it using > gdebi. It then wanted to uninstall galculator, lxde and 15 other > packages. Why should it care about lxde?!? It also wants to > install ia32-libs!!! The whole point of multi-arch, I thought, is > to eliminate ia32-libs. Multi-arch wasn't available in Squeeze. I didn't unravel the dependencies but undoubted the squeeze version of the nspluginwrapper package depends upon ia32-libs and that conflicts with anything from the later Wheezy that depends upon multi-arch. So trying to install nspluginwrapper pushes out anything that depends upon multiarch. But lxde depends upon galculator. But I don't know why galculator would have been pushed out. > How do I get icaclient to work in Wheezy, using multi-arch without > nspluginwrapper available. Since I need icaclient to connect to > work, if I can not get this to work then I will have to stick with > Squeeze unless and until Citrix decides to release a REAL AMD64 > version of icaclient. One more example of closed source software being an obstacle. First, I don't know. I wanted to comment upon the ia32-lib dependency. I also want to suggest a chroot. But since I don't know about the Citrix icaclient I must add this disclaimer first. :-) Personally I would create a Squeeze chroot and run the Squeeze version of this from the chroot on the host Wheezy system. I have to do that myself with a different work vpn client. Bob
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