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Re: [PLUG] debian upgrade confusion
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On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 03:39:33PM -0500, Darxus@chaosreigns.com wrote:
> On 08/31, Jeff Abrahamson wrote:
> > Err http://security.debian.org woody/updates/main Packages
> > 404 Not Found
>
> security.debian.org only contains stable.
>
> > Now, what really bothers me is what debian thinks it's going to
> > remove: things like task-x-window-system-core and gnumeric.
> >
> > Can anyone help me understand what is going on?
>
> the task* packages do not actually contain anything - they just depend on a
> useful collection of packages, so that installing them will install what
> they depend on.
>
> Not sure why it's removing gnumeric.
>
> I'd say just let it run, and attempt to install gnumeric afterward.
Good idea. Maybe I should do the dist-upgrade first, but my first shot
was just re-installing gnumeric. So I switch to woody in sources.list
and then:
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diderot:/home2/jeff/Mutt# apt-get -s -f install gnumeric
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
gnumeric: Depends: libgal4 but it is not installable
E: Sorry, broken packages
diderot:/home2/jeff/Mutt# apt-get -f -s install libgal4
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Package libgal4 has no available version, but exists in the database.
This typically means that the package was mentioned in a dependency and
never uploaded, has been obsoleted or is not available with the contents
of sources.list
E: Package libgal4 has no installation candidate
diderot:/home2/jeff/Mutt#
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> But you are going into debian unstable. Things may very well break.
Yes, I was thinking testing and wrote unstable. Glad I didn't actually
do it...
> Also, if your goal is just to get the latest gnumeric, there are a number
> of other things you can do short of a dist-upgrade.
>
> The easiest is just to update your sources, do an "apt-get update", then
> "apt-get install gnumeric" - this will upgrade just gnumeric and everything
> it depends on (which could include things like libc). You could also try
> just downloading the latest gnumeric debian package from the archive, and
> manually installing it with "dpkg -i packagename". It's worked for me with
> other packages at times in the past.
>
> Perhaps the cleanest solution would be to add the testing or unstable
> source lines to your apt sources:
>
> deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
> deb-src http://non-US.debian.org/debian-non-US testing/non-US main contrib non-free
>
> Then do:
>
> apt-get --compile source gnumeric
>
> This will build a file called gnumeric*deb in your current directory. Do
> "dpkg -i gnumeric*deb". That should do it.
That seems like a good idea. But, alas, I am cursed:
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jeff@diderot:gnumeric-test $ apt-get --compile source gnumeric
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Need to get 7173kB of source archives.
Get:1 http://http.us.debian.org testing/main gnumeric 0.64-1 (dsc) [805B]
Err http://http.us.debian.org testing/main gnumeric 0.64-1 (tar)
404 Not Found
Get:2 http://http.us.debian.org testing/main gnumeric 0.64-1 (diff) [38.8kB]
Fetched 39.6kB in 1s (24.3kB/s)
Failed to fetch http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/gnumeric/gnumeric_0.64.orig.tar.gz
404 Not Found
E: Failed to fetch some archives.
jeff@diderot:gnumeric-test $
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Tomorrow morning I think I shall try the old fashioned method of
downloading a tarball and compiling to /usr/local/.
I very much appreciate the help, btw. I don't mean to seem negative by
countering with stories about how it's not quite working...
--
Jeff
Jeff Abrahamson <http://www.purple.com/jeff/>
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