On Thu, 7 Nov 2002 02:39:17 +0000, Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 02:08:49AM +0000, Pigeon wrote: >> Compiled v4.2 of X today. > >I'm wondering why you don't just use the Debian source package ... I took your advice; I tried to get the Debian source package for Mozilla today. I went to http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages#search_packages and searched for mozilla... loads of results... looked through for something with "src" in the name somewhere... nothing. Trying to search the package contents online via a browser is really painful. I ended up downloading mozilla_1.0.0.orig.tar.gz plus the diff and the dsc. Is this really what one does? Course the main site search engine is down at the moment which probably doesn't help. Please: what is the convention for Debian package names by which I may distinguish a source package? May I suggest that the package search results webpages should include a little more information on what the various packages are? My search for mozilla threw up about 54 results with very brief descriptions - none of which included the word "source" - not having realised that Mozilla came in so many bits, I found it a bit bewildering to work out what they all were. Also, on the pages for each individual package, in the "Other packages related to xxxxx" section, the Depends/Recommended/Suggested icons can't be read with images turned off (unless you mess around hovering the mouse on each one). AARGH! May I suggest letters D, R, S instead? I guess most people never see this because they apt-get everything. I haven't got around to setting this up yet. I'm still setting up X 4.2 on my previously X-free box, including hack to the mouse driver for my odd mouse. I need a graphical app to test this properly in; best get the one I wanted X for - Mozilla. I want to get this out of the way first, otherwise I'll get mental stack overflows walking the problem tree! Also I'm scared of it. I initially tried the lazy way out by downloading the Mozilla binary .deb and 'dpkg -i'ing it. This gave me a "dependency nightmare". I downloaded: apt console-common console-data debconf dpkg e2fsprogs kbd libc6 libglib1.2 libgtk1.2 libgtk1.2-common libncurses libnspr libstdc++ mount perl-base slang1 sysvinit util-linux zlib1g before giving up in disgust. Some of these were older versions than I already had. I worry that if I do get apt up and running, I'm gonna have to spend a week online downloading half my system again as soon as I want a new package. Pigeon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
