Re: serious dependency problems

2002-01-20 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 11:25:07AM -0500, sam rosenfeld wrote: > On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 09:52:10PM -0600, Colin Watson wrote: > > You'll have to be more specific. It's possible that you only have > > runtime versions of libraries involved, while you need development > > (-dev) versions in order to

Re: serious dependency problems

2002-01-20 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 20 January 2002 4:25 pm, sam rosenfeld wrote: > I confess that I know next to nothing about the distinction between runtime > and development versions of the libraries. libx contains the library binary that a binary application that uses

Re: serious dependency problems

2002-01-20 Thread sam rosenfeld
On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 09:52:10PM -0600, Colin Watson wrote: > On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 02:40:06PM -0500, sam rosenfeld wrote: > > I have tried unsuccessfully to install many packages and programs -- > > from math programs to pine, sawfish and libc6.2. In most cases the > > problem is one in whic

Re: serious dependency problems

2002-01-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 02:40:06PM -0500, sam rosenfeld wrote: > I have tried unsuccessfully to install many packages and programs -- > from math programs to pine, sawfish and libc6.2. In most cases the > problem is one in which the 'make' closes with errors that list > dependencies it could not

Re: serious dependency problems

2002-01-19 Thread Joachim Fahnenmueller
Give examples: What did you try to install? Debian package (apt-get) or source (make)? What error message did you get? -- Joachim Fahnenmüller Lehrer für Mathematik und Physik Herder-Gymnasium Kattowitzer Straße 52 51065 Köln

Re: serious dependency problems

2002-01-18 Thread sam rosenfeld
On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 01:50:30PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Fri, 18 Jan 2002 14:40:06 -0500 sam rosenfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have tried unsuccessfully to install many packages and programs -- from > > math > > programs to pine, sawfish and libc6.2. In most cases the problem

Re: serious dependency problems

2002-01-18 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 18 Jan 2002 14:40:06 -0500 sam rosenfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have tried unsuccessfully to install many packages and programs -- from > math > programs to pine, sawfish and libc6.2. In most cases the problem is one in > which the 'make' closes with errors that list dependencie