James, Please explain the relationship between what you're saying here, and the info appearing at http://www.linuxcompatible.org/print20707.html, which was apparently posted quite recently, and which suggests different changes to sources.list, and gives different instructions.
mbc On 19 Aug 2003 20:20:53 -0400 James Strandboge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 00:44, Michael Bennett Cohn wrote: > > I am taking this to a public forum so others can (hopefully) benefit. > > > James, > > > > I know you're not responsible for backporting xfree86. It seems to me, however, > > that all the > > > discussion of your project in relation to xfree86, in various threads, even some > > you're > > > apparently not involved in, like the one at > > > http://cert.uni-stuttgart.de/archive/debian/user/2003/03/msg01356.html, is not so > > much about > > > trying to make your backport work with other backports, but about trying to make > > it work to begin > > > with. > > > That is not quite accurate. Woody ships with xfree86 4.1. libxft2 is > required by gnome2.2, and appears first in xfree86 4.2 (again, not in > official woody). xfree86 4.3 has an upgraded freetype that is > incompatible with woody. As such, people trying to install the gnome2.2 > backport on standard woody need to upgrade xfree86 to 4.2, and not 4.3. > There were some dependency issues when the gnome2.2 backport first came > out in February 2003 (one being that I provided an upgraded freetype, > but later learned of the problems of using freetype 2.1 on woody, and > downgraded it), but these have been fixed. Though these have been > posted elsewhere, the official instructions for installing the gnome2.2 > backport on woody are: > > Add to sources.list one of these: > deb > http://ftp.acc.umu.se/mirror/mirrors.evilgeniuses.org.uk/debian/backports/woody > gnome2.2/ > deb http://mirror.raw.no/ gnome2.2/ > > and have these Official woody lines (using an appropriate mirror): > deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free > deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main > > I recommend NOT having any other lines in sources.list. If you have > other lines, there may be conflicts. > > Then do: > apt-get update && apt-get -u dist-upgrade > apt-get install gnome-core > > and optionally: > apt-get install gnome gnome-fifth-toe gdm > > I have done this on many machines without issue, and have many off list > emails from people with similar experiences. However, there are several > GBs worth of software in woody, so there may be an occasional conflict. > I encourage everyone who finds these problems to contact me-- I can > usually fix dependency issues within 24 hours. > > I made the mistake of initially posting installation instructions that > depended on an xfree86 4.2 backport that I did not maintain. Not only > did people forget to add the line to sources.list and upgrade xfree86 > before attempting to install the gnome2.2 backport, after being > available for a few months, this xfree86 backport went away. To rectify > this, I took Adrian Bunk's xfree86 4.2 packages, and recompiled them on > woody with the backport, and now distribute them (with some additional > patches) with my gnome2.2 backport. As such, the gnome2.2 backport is > now self contained, and should install without problems on official > woody (just make sure xlibs gets upgraded). > > Unless you want to use xfree86 4.3. Until recently, the only package > that kept gnome2.2 from installing with various xfree86 4.3 backports > was pango, because it depended on a certain version of freetype. I > adjusted the pango dependency, and allow it to be installed with > freetype 2.1, even though it was compiled with 2.0.9 (official woody). > This should be considered experimental, but if you are running xfree86 > 4.3 on debian woody, you are already doing 'experimental' things > (xfree86 4.3 hasn't even hit sid yet, or is just about to). That said, > I haven't heard of problems with my backported pango and freetype 2.1. > > To get xfree86 4.3 and my backported pango (and thus the gnome2.2 > backport) to work, you must have these versions of software installed: > > fontconfig 2.1 > freetype 2.1 > libxft2 2.1 > > I do not supply xfree86 4.3 packages with the gnome2.2 backport, so it > is up to you to get the above software and xfree86 4.3 installed on your > system before attempting to install the gnome2.2 backport. Note that > sid currently has 2.2 versions for fontconfig-- this won't work. > > Also, for the record-- my backport will NOT work with Adrian Bunk's > packages. If you have them installed, you must remove them (at least > xfree86, freetype, fontconfig and libxft2-- but maybe more). This is a > common problem. In general, mixing backports can be a really bad idea. > I do not make any guarantees on using my gnome2.2 backport with any > other backport-- with the exception of the semi-official openoffice.org > woody backport. > > > Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: > > gdm: Depends: libbonoboui2-0 (>= 2.2.0) but it is not going to be installed > > Depends: libgconf2-4 (>= 2.2.0) but it is not going to be installed > > Depends: libglade2-0 (>= 2.0.0) but it is not going to be installed > > Depends: libgnome2-0 (>= 2.1.90) but it is not going to be installed > > Depends: libgnomecanvas2-0 (>= 2.1.90) but it is not going to be installe > > d > > Depends: libgnomeui-0 (>= 2.1.90) but it is not going to be installed > > Depends: libgnomevfs2-0 (>= 2.2.2) but it is not going to be installed > > Depends: libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.2.1) but it is not going to be installed > > Depends: libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.2.1) but it is not going to be installed > > As discussed above, pango is most likely the problem. gtk+2.0 depends > on pango and everything else in gnome (more or less) depends on gtk+2.0. > > What is the output of each of these commands? > > dpkg -l|grep freetype > dpkg -l|grep fontconfig > dpkg -l|grep xlibs > dpkg -l|grep libxft2 > dkpg -l|grep xserver > > Jamie Strandboge > > -- > 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". 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