From: Greg Madden (gomadtroll@gci.net)
Date: Mon Aug 18 2003 - 23:24:24 EDT
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On Monday 18 August 2003 04:25 pm, Jack Dodds wrote:
> Hubert Figuiere wrote:
> >According to Greg Madden <gomadtroll@gci.net>:
> >> the depends for Abiword 1.99.x are far to many to do a dpkg -i on
> >> the packages. Even doing 'apt-get sorce -b' with Sid src in the
> >> sources list ptobably won't work, to many additional pakages will
> >> have to be builts, not for the faint of heart. There is a reason
> >> Abiword 1.99.x is not in Testing, don't expect it to work in Woody
> >> :)
> >
> >Try fetching the GNOME 2.2 Debian package for Woody that are
> > available from a link on gnome.org website....
> >
> >If you get that, you solve most dependencies.
> >Anyway, YMMV as I haven't tried myself, I run sid everywhere....
> >
> >Hub
>
> Thanks for the suggestion, Hub. It worked, but the result was not
> quite what I intended. The procedure was roughly this, just in case
> someone else wants to try. (Actually I went through a much messier
> sequence, which I won't bother describing, before I figured out the
> right things to do).
>
> This was based in part on information in:
> http://debianplanet.org/node.php?id=924
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/debian-user-200302/msg03865.
>html
>
> I added to the /etc/sources.list file the line
>
> deb
> http://ftp.acc.umu.se/mirror/mirrors.evilgeniuses.org.uk/debian/backp
>orts/woody/ gnome2.2/
>
> I removed the 1.99.3 packages that I had previously attempted to
> install (which were the .rpm files from the Abiword site converted
> to .deb using alien):
>
> dpkg -r abiword abiword-clipart abiword-embeddable
> abiword-plugins-impexp abiword-plugins-tools
>
> Then,
>
> apt-get update
> apt-get install gnome-core gdm gtk2-engines*
> apt-get install abiword abiword-common aspell-en libaspell15
> libfribidi0
>
> This installed Abiword 1.9.1, but unfortunately also uninstalled KDE,
> upgraded Gnome to 2.2, upgraded X to 4.2.1, and made Gnome the
> default desktop environment. If I now updated Abiword to 1.99.3
> using the rpms from the Abiword site, I expect that all the needed
> libraries would be there. Unfortunately my system now is not really
> Woody any more! So I'm probably going to try downgrading to pure
> Woody, then try upgrading to Abiword 1.99.3, perhaps using the Sid
> packages, as someone else has suggested on this list.
>
> All I can say is, I'm getting plenty of experience with apt-get!
>
> Jack
If you decide to go the Sid route, read up on 'apt_preferences'. I
think in the end you will be have a Debian Sid box.
- --
Greg Madden
Debian GNU/Linux
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