--- ScruLoose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey folks, > > After visiting mozilla.org recently, I got kind of > keen to try > firebird, so I checked apt-get.org for a backport, > and found a couple > of sources there; the problem is that they want to > beat the crap out of > my system for their dependencies: > > deb > http://people.debian.org/~nobse/debian/woody/backported > ./ > wants to remove 71 packages, including abiword, > kde-base, and modconf > wants to upgrade about a dozen packages, including > debconf, gcc, and > xfree86-common... > > I thought the whole point of backports was to > *avoid* having to upgrade > my whole system in order to install one package. Is > there something I > should know about what's going on here, or is this a > broken backport? > > Both > deb http://debian.netfarm.it/experimental/ woody > sherpya/ > and > deb http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~sdier/debian > updates/wup/ > croak as soon as I do an aptitude (or apt-get) > update, giving this > error: > > W: Couldn't stat source package list > <URL snipped> > - stat (2 No such file or directory) > W: You may want to update the package lists to > correct these missing > files > > So... any ideas whether there's something I should > be doing to make > these backports work, or whether I should be trying > to compile firebird > myself... > And if the latter, this would be my first attempt at > compiling from > source: is it feasible or would I be getting into a > huge complex > project? > > Thanks for any ideas > -- >
This is not really a reply to your question but, I just use their binary - I didn't have much luck compiling firebird myself, after building, the browser starts registering some components or something and than it breaks :-s HTH, Joris ===== -- Life is both difficult and tim consuming. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
