Re: stung by dependancies

2003-03-09 Thread Greg Madden
On Saturday 08 March 2003 05:12 pm, Marlin Unruh wrote: > Thanks for the AWESOME response. I will re-install debian ASAP and give > it a REAL try. I'm impressed with the response time, it seems to be at > the speed of light. > > Marlin No need to re-install to get ew packages or fix depends. You

Re: stung by dependancies

2003-03-08 Thread Marlin Unruh
Thanks for the AWESOME response. I will re-install debian ASAP and give it a REAL try. I'm impressed with the response time, it seems to be at the speed of light. Marlin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: stung by dependancies

2003-03-08 Thread John
I had problems with some compiled GTK apps on unstable, which required different libs ( png problems ), what i did was get hold of those libs and dropped them into /usr/local/lib/gtk_fix i then set up scripts for the couple of programs that need to use those libs as follows - #!/bin/sh expo

Re: stung by dependancies

2003-03-08 Thread Donald Spoon
Marlin Unruh wrote: I would like to switch from an RPM based package handling distro. In fact I installed a debian distro, but uninstalled it because one of the main programs I use is for drawing schematics and PCB. It uses some old components, ld-linux.so.1 and libc-5.3.12-3, both in RPM form.

Re: stung by dependancies

2003-03-08 Thread Greg Madden
On Saturday 08 March 2003 03:58 pm, Marlin Unruh wrote: > ibc-5.3.12-3 There is a libc5 & ldso package available in woody. I don't know for a fact that these are what you need but I use them for an old copy of WordPerfect for Linux. -- Greg Madden -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: stung by dependancies

2003-03-08 Thread nate
Marlin Unruh said: > I would like to switch from an RPM based package handling distro. In fact > I installed a debian distro, but uninstalled it because one of the main > programs I use is for drawing schematics and PCB. It uses some old > components, ld-linux.so.1 and libc-5.3.12-3, both in RPM f

stung by dependancies

2003-03-08 Thread Marlin Unruh
I would like to switch from an RPM based package handling distro. In fact I installed a debian distro, but uninstalled it because one of the main programs I use is for drawing schematics and PCB. It uses some old components, ld-linux.so.1 and libc-5.3.12-3, both in RPM form. Is there any way I