On Tue, 8 Feb 2000, B.C. Computer wrote: > Debian, > > I have been asking this question for a while now, on your > newsgroups and the debian chatroom. And so far no one has even offered > an answer. My question is this: Why is it that the gnome-apt package > from the Potato, or Frozen, distribution is dependant on a package > that doesn't exist and has never existed? I recently built several > linux systems for some customers, and on the first two, gnome-apt > installed fine, with no dependance errors. The last few came up with > gnome-apt, a package that my customers need quite badly, having a > dependance failure. It required libapt-pkg2.6. Yet, upon > investigation, the libapt-pkg2.6 package does not exist, according to > your web based package lookup tool. Is there any chance I can get this > package, in whatever unstable state it exists? Or could I have the > source code for this package, so that I can compile and install the > library myself? I would really, really appreciate it. :) Thanx! > > Jon Rista > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Known bug (if I remember right). I just tried it, recompiling on my woody-box works. If you want to compile you need to download the following files (the links are found at the bottom of http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/admin/gnome-apt.html) http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/main/source/admin/gnome-apt_0.3.6.tar.gz http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/main/source/admin/gnome-apt_0.3.6.dsc then do a dpkg-source -x gnome-apt_0.3.6.dsc cd gnome-apt-0.3.6 dpkg-buildpackage -b -uc -rfakeroot and that should build the package (dpkg-source and dpkg-buildpackage are from the dpkg-dev package). Martin -- This is Linux Country. In a quiet night, you can hear Windows reboot. For public PGP-key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
