On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 09:39:32PM -0400, Brian Nelson wrote: | Andy Davidson <'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'> writes: | | > I wanted to upgrade to the latest version of gnucash which has some | > features I need that are not in the stable version (1.3.4) But it is | > only in unstable, so I added the following line to sources.list | > deb http://http.us.debian.org/ unstable main | > and did an 'apt-get update' and then 'apt-get install gnucash'. | > | > But it failed with the following messages: | > Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have | > requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable | > distribution that some required packages have not yet been created | > or been moved out of Incoming. | > | > Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that | > the package is simply not installable and a bug report against | > that package should be filed. | > The following information may help to resolve the situation: | > | > Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: | > gnucash: Depends: libgal9 (>= 0.10) but it is not installable | > Depends: libgtkhtml14 (>= 0.11.1) but it is not installable | > | > Am I out of luck until more is done with gnucash? Or have I --- heaven | > forfend! --- made a mistake somewhere? | | It's not your fault. Those files aren't installable because they | don't exist in the archives. Annoyingly, when libgal and libgtkhtml's | major version number keeps getting incremented, so when those packages | are updated, the older versions that gnucash depends are no longer | available. For example, libgal is now up to libgal11, but the gnucash | version in unstable still depends on libgal9. Since libgal9 is no | longer available, you'll have to wait until gnucash is updated to | depend on libgal11. Such is life with unstable.
Oh, that's what happened. Since I installed gnucash & dependencies manually I still have the debs in a serparate location. Would you like me to send them to you? FYI -- guile gets updated, and somehow, as a result of dependencies gnome-games-locale and gnome-card-games get updated. Then you either need to force something or update all gnome-games. I'm running woody with some stuff from sid that isn't (or wasn't at the time) in woody. | Maybe the gnucash in woody won't have broken dependencies... gnucash in woody is really old -- it's the same as potato. | Also, typically when you install packages in stable that are from | unstable, you need to build them yourself (apt-get source ...) since | potato packages are build against libc5 whereas woody/sid packages are | build against libc6. | | Confused yet? :) No, potato uses libc6. Slink, I think, used libc5. -D
