On 03 Sep 2001, Andras BALI wrote: > On Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 03:14:58PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > > Apt/dselect has just removed my glimpse package :-( > > > What is supposed to replace this? > > > I've occasionally found packages removed in updates, recently it was > > aptitude. Not sure why. > > No, glimpse is removed from the Debian archive for good due to the > fact that there was no new upload for almost three years and it had a > grave security bug since March 2000. Newer upstream versions of > glimpse seems to have unacceptable license for Debian. > > More information: > http://bugs.debian.org/glimpse > http://bugs.debian.org/60852 > http://bugs.debian.org/109355 > http://webglimpse.net/licensing.html > > You could try `htdig', `namazu' or `swish++' for indexing your > documents. > > -- > BALI, Andra's GPG keyID: 78560E1C > [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Yes, after looking at the glimpse web page I gathered that it was probably a 'political' decision to remove it; it seems to have become shareware, so it's fair enough. Htdig seems to be for html only. Namazu didn't work for me - kept producing error messages in Japanese! I got the swish++ deb package but it didn't install the binary - a bug in the package on testing? Finally I got the tar.gz package from the swish++ website (it's actually NOT compressed, just a tar package), and it seems to be working now after compiling. Thanks to all for help. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - running Debian GNU/Linux (Windows-free zone). For electronic books (Homeomythology and The Assassins of Alamut), skeptical essays, and over 130 book reviews, go to http://www.acampbell.org.uk/ What the world will be like a century hence, was never so impossible to foresee. Like a gigantic snowball, larger and larger, faster and faster, science hurtles with us all into the unknown. [F.L. Lucas - 1955]
