On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 11:29:08PM -0500, Tim Fairbank wrote: > I have a stable Debian 2.2r3 system with KDE 1.1.2 > installed. When I attempted to use the packages from > kde.debian.net to upgrade to KDE 2.1.1, the upgrade failed. > > The issue appears to be a dependency on libmng1, which does > not exist in potato. What's worse, the version of > libmng1 in woody depends on libc6 >= 2.2.2-2, so I > can't just build from source and install by hand.
Sure you can. apt-get --build source libmng1 (if you point at unstable) else find libmng sources in the pool pool/main/libm/libmng/libmng_1.0.1-1.diff.gz " " libmng_1.0.1-1.dsc " " libmng_1.0.1.orig.tar.gz download dpkg-source -x libmng_1.0.1-1.dsc cd libmng-1.0.1 fakeroot debian/rules binary cd .. lintian *.deb dpkg -i *.deb > I would need to upgrade the whole system...which I'm > resisting, since it's running perfectly now. > > Here are the details: <SNIP> > Any suggestions? > > -- Gordon Sadler
