Juan wrote: > Appears to be that when i try to install grass from a .deb > package it has a lot of dependencies, and ok i downloaded > them but those decencies have more downloading have more and > is like never ends.
it gets there. > Is there a way to install it with all the dependencies > together? > since i used apt-get with this result: try aptitude instead of apt-get, it has better conflict resolution code. > > juanchy:/home/criacuervo/Desktop# > ls > grass_6.0.2-6_i386.deb why do you have .debs downloaded manually? that shouldn't be necessary. and 6.0.2 is far out of date, lenny shipped with GRASS 6.2.3 and GDAL 1.5.2. ??? > libpq4_8.1.17-0etch1_i386.deb > libgdal1-1.3.2_1.3.2-4_i386.deb > juanchy:/home/criacuervo/Desktop# > dpkg -i libgdal1-1.3.2_1.3.2-4_i386.deb "aptitude install grass" should handle all that. there is no need to run dpkg manually. in fact in most cases you shouldn't. gdal 1.3.2 is from the old Debian/Etch, so it isn't surprising that it is out of date WRT the rest of a modern Lenny system. > Selecting previously > deselected package libgdal1-1.3.2. > dpkg: regarding > libgdal1-1.3.2_1.3.2-4_i386.deb containing > libgdal1-1.3.2: > libgdal1-1.5.0 conflicts with > libgdal1-1.3.2 > libgdal1-1.3.2 (version 1.3.2-4) is to be > installed. > dpkg: error processing libgdal1-1.3.2_1.3.2-4_i386.deb > (--install): > conflicting packages - not installing > libgdal1-1.3.2 > Errors were encountered while > processing: > libgdal1-1.3.2_1.3.2-4_i386.deb try adding backports.org to your /etc/sources.list file. there you will find a more modern package for DebGrass/Lenny: http://packages.debian.org/grass (and gdal too) you should not have to handle anything at the .deb / dpkg level, aptitude should be able to take care of all dependencies for you, automatically. Hamish _______________________________________________ grass-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user
