Re: Debian Woody and 1.99.3

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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