On Mon, Jan 15, 2018 at 01:32:07AM -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:
A long time ago I had used Amaya, a HTML editor available at
<https://www.w3.org/Amaya/Distribution/amaya_11.4.7-1_i386.deb>.
I know, it's OLD. But I've used it ;/
I did:
dpkg -i /home/richard/Downloads/amaya_11.4.7-1_i386.deb
Received error message:
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of amaya:
amaya depends on libssl0.9.8 (>= 0.9.8m-1); however:
Package libssl0.9.8 is not installed.
However Synaptic indicates that libssl1.0.2 is installed.
Questions:
1. Can I "fix" the install?
The short answer is: yes, there are several approaches, I'll outline the
skeletons of some below, but they are quite complex and have caveats and
I would not recommend trying these for beginners (not that you are a
beginner...)
[snip]
If *that* worked, you could investigate repacking the amaya .deb with the
compatibility symlink in it and the dependencies edited, and installing
the result; or, just run it out of the unpacked location above.
However this is awkward, error prone etc.; out of scope for my mail here
but this class of problem is better addressed using container technology
IMHO, like Flatpak (or Docker at a pinch); but the work needs to be done
to prepare containers with legacy dependencies within them for such
software and that has not been done yet so far as I know.