On 2/20/07, Eugen Leitl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Attempt to build the new application (remember, it's a plain
command line interface), and it asks for qt3, kde, and libofx.
I howl, comply, and pull in some 100 packages by way of codependancies.
It's a frigging mess, but it happens to work, in the end (this time,
it didn't the last time I tried). I send the
developer a donation, because though a) it was intensely painful,
2) it worked, and I absolutely need that piece of logic working for
a user account/shopping cart infrastructure.
The problem is that my experience is typical for an open source
package. Tale of woe ends here.
Building from source is dependency hell as you have encountered. If I
were you, I would search for the availability of a newer version of
the software in Debian or Ubuntu backports. Worst case, you will have
to try and build the deb package for new upstream source.
Thaths
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