> Woody ships with freetype 2.0.9 while my gnome2.2 backport uses freetype > 2.1.3. After some investigation and testing, I have found that gnome > 2.2 does not actually require freetype 2.1.3. Due to people wanting to > use the semi-official openoffice.org packages > (http://www.linux-debian.de/openoffice/) and the potential problems with > using freetype 2.1.3 on a woody system, I have recompiled packages in my > backport to use the woody version of freetype. This should resolve any > issues with the semi-official openoffice.org. > > New users of the backport don't require any special instructions beyond > those found at http://people.debian.org/~walters/gnome2.html. > > Current gnome2.2 backport users should do: > > apt-get update > apt-get upgrade > rm /var/cache/apt/archives/*freetype* > dpkg -r --force-depends libfreetype6 libfreetype6-dev freetype2-demos > apt-get -f install > > The above will end up removing any packages that depend on freetype > 2.1.3, so people using another package of openoffice.org will have to > change to the semi-official version (see above link for mirrors). <snip> Just installed it as your suggested steps. Works great here! I can now use the packages from that repository ...
Thanks Jamie ... Yuhanes
