don magnify wrote: > now that have sorted out the sources.list i get this: > E: Unable to locate package libpngwriter0-dev > for # apt-get install libpngwriter0-dev > > although http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/libpngwriter0-dev > > my guess is one is squeezing the other is weezing. so how do i force it in? The pngwriter package, which includes libpngwriter0c2 and libpngwriter0-dev, were removed from Unstable and Testing on 03 Apr 2011. See this bug report: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=620502 The last update prior to that had been in 2008 according to the PTS. The last upstream update was in 2009. Probably still good. But not much activity in the last five years. http://packages.qa.debian.org/p/pngwriter.html If you care about the continuing use of that package it would be good to drum up activity and support for it. Or perhaps move to whatever else is currently supported these days. > do i create a separate sources.list for squeeze? An excellent resource is snapshot.debian.org. The previous version in Debian Squeeze 6 was libpngwriter0-dev 0.5.3-3. http://snapshot.debian.org/ Go there. Search for pngwriter. Find all of these versions. Select one such as the latest. Download the compatible architecture from there. http://snapshot.debian.org/package/pngwriter/0.5.3-3/ Then install it with 'dpkg -i'. If it has dependencies follow that up with 'apt-get -f install' to install any additional dependencies. # dpkg -i foo-X.Y.deb # apt-get -f install Bob
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