On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 15:29, A. Loonstra wrote: > Hi, > > I've recently installed woody on a test system. I added the Gnome 2.2 > backport and the Xfree 4.2 backport. I added the following to sources.list > > # XFree 4.2 > deb http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/debian woody/bunk-1 main contrib non-free > deb-src http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/debian woody/bunk-1 main contrib non-free > # Gnome 2.2 > deb > ftp://ftp.acc.umu.se/mirror/mirrors.evilgeniuses.org.uk/debian/backports/woo > dy gnome2.2/ > deb-src > ftp://ftp.acc.umu.se/mirror/mirrors.evilgeniuses.org.uk/debian/backports > /woody gnome2.2/ > > Installation went fine but I ran into som problems when aptitude > suddenly wanted to remove a lot of packages. I managed to fix that but > aptitude didn't automaticly fix broken dependencies and I had to do that > by hand.
You no longer need Adrian's xfree86 4.2.1 packages as I supply them with the backport. His packages are very good, and xfree86 4.2.1 are just his sources recompiled on standard woody. There are a couple of small patches in mine that work better with gnome2.2 at this moment as well, but he may be adding those soon. If you take Adrian's lines out and just use the gnome2.2 lines, you get everything you need for gnome2.2 and xfree86. Let me know of any conflicts in my packages. > Kernel 2.6-test2 came out and I thought let's try this. But I > had to install gcc and suddenly had different version installed; gcc > (2.95) gcc-3.0-base gcc-3.3-base. The kernel doesn't want to compile > telling me lots of includes are missing (fixdep.c). I'm having apt > horrors, I guess, and am thinking of reinstalling the whole systems (I > hate it when it's out of control) If you want to use my gnome2.2 backport, try to remove Adrian's lines in sources.list and his backports first, and after that, add his in selectively. Otherwise just use his backport. My gnome2.2 backport is not compatible with his for many reasons, one being freetype. All of his packages have 'bunk' in the version string, so they are easy enough to find: COLUMNS=150 dpkg -l | grep bunk Once they are all removed, feel free to add Adrian's lines back into sources.list, and do 'apt-get install gcc-3.2' and have it pull in what is needed for that package. When you have the packages you need for 2.6-test2, then comment out his line in sources.list. Mixing backports can be very tricky because certain libraries need to be upgraded for one, but conflict with another. freetype is one such library. The semi-official OpenOffice.org and my backport use woody freetype (2.0.9), however xfree86 4.3 and Adrian uses a backported freetype (2.1.3) (though my packages now work with xfree86 4.3, if you have all the proper libraries installed). Freetype 2.1.3 is not backward compatible. Hopefully the person who did the backport cared enough to have it work on a more or less standard woody, or supplied alternatives where they had to upgrade a library. Adrian is one such person, and I try to be too. :) Jamie -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG/PGP ID: 26384A3A Fingerprint: D9FF DF4A 2D46 A353 A289 E8F5 AA75 DCBE 2638 4A3A -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
