On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 14:09:57 -0400, Mark Copper wrote: > I want to gnumeric installed on top of debian potato. (Don't need anything > else from gnome right now). Trouble is that the stable version is too far > out of date,
True. > and the testing version won't install (needed libgal4 package > unavailable). Known problem. The version in unstable currently has no bugs that prevent it from propagating to testing, so it's hopefully just a matter of waiting before it shows up there. The version in testing can quite likely very easily be rebuilt from source; quite possibly the same goes for building a version to run on testing from the source in unstable. > The unstable version installs but program call yields only a seg fault. It runs fine under unstable (if not, do file a bug). Its library dependencies are such that it will not work on stable. These dependencies are properly declared, so the only way to get it install on stable is to purposely circumvent the package management system's checks on dependencies; in that case you're on your own. Don't go there. > So I'm trying to build a deb from sources. That seems the most sensible approach, _if and only if_ your dependence on stable is paramount [*] If not, install testing now and save yourself plenty of problems, or consider installing testing on a different machine and run gnumeric from there. Stable serves one purpose: being stable. It is _very_ old compared to testing or unstable, and backports are hard work. [*] Gnumeric has quite a lot of dependencies, many on versions of software that are not available in stable, so it will require much effort to get it to work. I strongly recommend against this if you can avoid it. > Here's the error that stops the show: missing gnomeConf.sh that should > have been created by an installation of gnome-libs. By the _development package_ of gnomelibs, i.e. "libgnome-dev". > Trouble is apt-get can't find gnome-libs to install. In stable it's in "libgnome-dev" as well. HTH, Ray -- Obsig: developing a new sig
