On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 22:22:24 +0200, Nigel Henry wrote: > On Sunday 12 April 2009 20:51, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 18:07:03 +0200, Marcin Kłapkowski wrote: > > > Florian Kulzer pisze: > > >> On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 16:00:14 +0200, Marcin Kłapkowski wrote: > > >>> Hi, > > >>> > > >>> I would like to install soundtracker (it's one of the best tracker > > >>> I've heard and used before). > > >>> I'm using sid, and in repo there is version 0.6.8-2+b1 of soundtracker. > > >>> But, I get missing dependencies:
[...] > > >> You could also try the soundtracker-gtk2 package mentioned in bug > > >> #519641. [...] > > I have have no idea if the soundtracker program itself will still work - > > see also Nigel's earlier message about its state on Lenny - and keeping > > soundtracker installed and running on Sid will probably become more and > > more difficult as Sid evolves further and further away from Lenny. [...] > I've just booted up my Etch install, which is on the same machine as > Lenny.and > soundtracker works ok, without any problem on Etch. It appears to be an > earlier version of Soundtracker though (0.6.8-2 (stable)). > > Perhaps I should contact the Soundtracker maintainer who appears to be: > Junichi Uskawa <dancer At debian DOT org> > > It's a shame when the authors/maintainers of packages have lost interest in > providing support for the packages that they have been maintaining. The soundtracker project seems to be dead upstream since 2006 and it needs GTK1. I can see why a maintainer would lose interest. > I suppose we could always install soundtracker from a source tarball. I've > dealt with dependency hell before, and it's not a lot of fun, but sometimes > with a bit of help from the lists, you can get the app up, and running. I just tried to build the GTK2 version from Barry deFreese's updated version of the source package. The build did not succeed; I suspect that might be due to my system being 64bit. I cannot invest more time in this problem; you can try your luck yourself: dget http://people.debian.org/~bdefreese/soundtracker_gtk2/soundtracker_0.6.8.gtk2.20080114-0.1.dsc cd soundtracker-0.6.8.gtk2.20080114/ dpkg-checkbuilddeps debian/control dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -us -uc cd .. (You will need the packages "build-essential" and "devscripts", as well as all missing dependencies listed by dpkg-checkbuilddeps.) If you succeed in building this package, at least on i386, then it might be easier to convince the maintainer to keep the package alive. -- Regards, | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
