Johann Spies writes: > > Then I wanted to compile pine from the non-free disk. But there was > no pine source. I then downloaded a binary rpm package of pine using > my slow 14400 modem, tried to convert it by alien, but the process > failed because of some library error in the package. > > Staroffice 4 would not run anymore.It complains about not being able > to load libXt.so.6. I have important spreadsheets that I use > Staroffice for. >
Staroffice uses libc5. Hamm is libc6, but the developpers have done a great job enabling use of libc5 programs as well (and tranparently). You will have to install libc5 support (and maybe somehting more, I am not sure which libraries staroffice4 uses, but I have it up and running at home). See the directory binary-i386/oldlibs in your CD. > Lyx would not run because the correct libforms package was not > installed. It could not be found either on the Non free CD or contrib > CD. In the end I downloaded a Xforms RPM package, converted it using > alien and installed it, symlinked a libforms.so.0.88 library to > libforms.so.0.86 and installed lyx with force-depends. It does not > work satisfactorily. Lyx also complains about not finding the a4.sty > file. I did so far not have time to find out why. > Take a look in the nearest Debian's mirror site. I got Lyx from mine ant it works very well. Consider using apt package (you can get it in the unstable distribution directory). > XV was missing on the non-free CD. > Maybe it could not be shipped due to some distribution restriction. I can get a xv from the directory /dists/stable/non-free/binary-i386/graphics/ in the mirror next to me. > For the first time I am using Xemacs20 - also to write this email in > the absence of pine. It is too early to tell whether I will return to > emacs. > > I still have to find out whether I will be able to continue to use > Netscape and Mosaic on the new system. I suspect not. > You may need something from oldlibs section here (if your netscape is libc5). But it runs quite well in my system. > Maybe someone has solutions for some of my problems and maybe someone > else will be warned that to upgrade is not just a simple problemless > process and that productivity for at least a few days can be > frustratingly low. And pine source is also avaible from the non-free directory in my mirror site. So my last hint: *take a look in a mirror site for non-free packages*. There are lots of non-free packages that can't be shippend in a CD (from LSL or whatever), probably that's the case with pine, xv, etc. Hope that helps and welcome to Hamm (it is great! And yes it was a wise move). Paulo.
