It's this day take a good start for me.
You have updated a lot of packages that is one drawback of using sid. It's
the price for uptodate packages.
For libgal6, I've seen this problem, moreover libgal-data conflicts with
it. I don't know what the solution here (I imagine updating all packages
requiring libgal6 to libgal7), but for one of my box I've removed
libgal-data and installed manually (dpkg -i) libgal6. At this time it was
still available at the debian.org package search page.
If you need it and can't find it I can send it to you.
For your cool blackbox, I don't know what is it but you can see at the
following url :
http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages
that xsetbg comes from xloadimage
I use only unstable but I know a lot of people use testing and temporary
add unstable to install a missing software.
Christophe
On Tue, 29 May 2001 02:50:51 vester wrote:
>
> okay...so you have me convinced.
>
> i just got rid of all the ximian packages, deleted the ximian server from
> sources-list and added sid instead...the oddyssey started there...
>
> to install new packages i had to go through a lot of upgrading, which was
> a bit tricky especially with the perl perl-modules and perl-base
> packages,
> but somehow i sorted it all out and now here i am with a lot of software
> out of sid, but there are a few things i haven't figured out yet and, it
> beeing 3am (ouch) i'd be very grateful for advice =)
>
> -my cool blackbox desktop won't load anymore...i suppose it is because
> the
> command xsetbg got lost somewhere along the way of upgrading to
> unstable...i've been browsing through dselect for some time now, to no
> avail. does anyone know what package provides for the xsetbg command???
> this is vital for me!
>
> -gnumeric (along with evolution and redcarpet) depend on libgal6 which
> appears to be missing ... now, i haven't made up my mind if i really want
> to use those applications, but i'd like to know, just in case, what i can
> do about this...
>
> -this is a general one: i basically have testing in my sources list now,
> and added unstable to it...i guess my system is basically still testing?
> with a lot of packages out of unstable though. my question is: does this
> make sense? or should i rather move to unstable all the way? i'm feeling
> kind of awkward about this move though...so would it also make sense to
> put unstable out of my sources list once i've installed all the packages
> i
> wanted on my system and everything is working? i guess there is no real
> answer to this question but since i am still new to debian, it would help
> to get some advice!
>
> thanks all!
>
> -vester
>
>
> On Mon, 28 May 2001, [ISO-8859-1] christophe barbé wrote:
>
> > I understand that you want to keep ximian but I would like to convinced
> you
> > that is far from being a good thing.
> >
> > They provided a quite less uptodate gnome 1.4. With ximian you are
> sticky
> > to mozilla 0.8.1 and IIRC psm isn't working.
> > As you noticed you get dependencies problems. They have strange habits
> like
> > crazy numbering scheme for packages : Last time I check the libnspr4
> > (netscpe library for mozilla) version number was not consistent with
> the
> > mozilla one but they are build from the same source.
> >
> > You can have a better desktop without ximian. They do a very good job.
> > There red-carpet is a very good thing for the rpm's world (and perhaps
> for
> > the potato users) but as a debian (woody/sid) user you have already
> better
> > tools.
> >
> > Remove Ximian from your sources.list !
> >
> > Christophe
> >
> >
> > On Sun, 27 May 2001 13:57:41 vester wrote:
> > >
> > > hello,
> > >
> > > my system is debian testing/unstable and i'd still like to use ximian
> > > 1.4...any experiences?
> > >
> > > i mean it's working, more or less...i basically added the ximian
> server
> > > to
> > > my sources list and apt-get installed the packages. results: gnome is
> > > working as far as i can tell, with the following exceptions:
> > >
> > > -red carpet depends on packages usermode, which depends on two
> packages
> > > which don't seem to be available for woody, so i got them from potato
> > > instead. but when i try to start red-carpet (after the query for the
> root
> > > password pops up as usual) i get a segmentation fault...so, no
> > > red-carpet!
> > >
> > > -there is this general problem that the package libgnomeprint11 won't
> > > install because apparently it doesn't want to overwrite some files
> that
> > > have already been provided by libgnomeprint-bin -- because of the
> arising
> > > dependency issues nautilus, gnumeric and abiword won't install
> either!
> > > any
> > > ideas there?
> > >
> > > well, those are my main problems basically. any ideas on how to fix
> them?
> > >
> > > thanks all!
> > >
> > > -vester
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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