On Tue, Apr 14, 1998 at 11:27:53PM +0200, Klas Lindberg wrote: > > Namely that the package you're asking for doesn't exist. HOWEVER, there > > is a libgif2 and that is what you want. Assuming of course that you're > > willing to hack apart the .deb file, edit the dependancy, and put it back > > together again. I do not advise forcing the package. > > There is a much more straight forward solution: > Get the sources and compile them yourself (support, libs, base (the > rest in any order)). This requires a pretty fat developers installation of > Debian, but it definitely pays off since dependecy problems are virtually > blown away. (they come back in a more digestible format when trying to start > KDE for the first time...)
This could be done I suppose.. But it has a disadvantage too in that it defeats the purpose of packaging the thing. > This also has the benefit (?) of getting the installation into the > /usr/local/ tree (same as QT) instead of the RedHatian /opt/ tree. AFAIK, the /opt/ thing is the way the KDE people say to do it, though it breaks policy (then again so does qmail if you're doing it as designed) and I am personally unsure as to whether /usr/local/ would indeed be better than /opt/. Perhaps symlinking would be better? Yes, that would do it I think. Thinking that line, what would then be really nice is a debianized package version done "properly", in an attempt to make the whole thing as close to policy as possible (and have resolvable deps..) If I knew the current still-non-free-but-at-least-nicer-than-it-was stuff wrt Qt were going to pan out okay, I would happily try to do this myself. Granted, since I do not know what the helpful tools are for making .deb files I would end up building the package directories by hand, but hey. My only real objection to Qt is that Troll has a financial interest in making sure people pay them for it. I want to know they will not pull an Open Group move on us. I'll like Qt much more when I am sure this will not happen. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
