On Thu, 2003-06-19 at 20:53, Richard Heycock wrote: > On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 05:54, Jody Grafals wrote: [...] > > I want to install freeswan_1.99-6_i386.deb(unstable) in my woody > > system how do I solve the dependency problems? Ive tried download all > > the dependent files from the debian web site and just installing them > > with "dpkg -i" but then I go from dependency problems to conflicts. This > > all seems so complicated I know debian must have a better way. > > > > Are you using apt-get? There is a system called apt which has a command > called apt-get. apt-get is the most wonderful thing. Try the following: > > apt-get install freeswan > > And that's that. It will manage all the dependencies.
Unless you want your machine to be half woody, half sid, I would strongly recommend against that approach. What you want to do is backport. It can be a time consuming process, but if you are setting up a vpn system, you will save more time by sticking with a woody system + updates instead of chasing unstable constantly to avoid security vulnerabilities. What you need to do is add this line to your /etc/apt/sources.list: deb-src http://mirrors.kernel.org/debian/ sid main non-free contrib run "apt-get update" and as root start downloading source packages and checking build dependencies. Here's an example: apt-get source freeswan grep Depends freeswan-1.99/debian/control Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 2.2.0), libgmp3-dev, libssl-dev Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, bsdmainutils, makedev | devfsd, debconf, debianutils (>=1.7), openssl Depends: fileutils (>= 4.1-7) Depends: fileutils (>= 4.1-7) so, we check that the build-depends are satisfied and that the version requirements are met: apt-get install debhelper libgmp3-dev libssl-dev apt-cache policy debhelper so you can now run dpkg-buildpackage and have a freeswan .deb. but it will still not be installable because not all of the dependencies are satisfied. so we go through the Depends: list and backport each of the packages that needs it. by checking apt-cache policy debianutils, we see that we are going to need to backport it. Let's install the other stuff first though. apt-get install bsdmainutils makedev debconf openssl then we apt-get source debianutils etc etc. Like I said, it can be a very time consuming process, but you will thank yourself down the road. Post back here if you need help with anything. -Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
