On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 9:47 AM, b3ta<[email protected]> wrote:

> Having read quite a bit of information about Leo, I was extremely keen
> to get it installed on my system (Ubuntu 9.04). I downloaded the
> latest version (leo_4.6.2-1_all.deb) and tried to install.
>
>    * The first hurdle was an incomplete install, which I was unable
> to remove or purge.

What was the error message about?

>    * I then took the file list from the .deb package and removed all
> the top-level directories. [I know, there are better ways, but this is
> what I did.]
>
>    * Thinking that maybe it's an issue with the latest, I tried to
> install via the repositories, and got a complaint about some python-qt
> stuff (sorry, I did not keep notes) which I had to get installed via
> "apt-get -f install", which I did.
>
>    * Upon running leo, however, I received a Python usage complaint.

Can you be more specific about this? It'd be much easier for me to fix
(I am to blame for all the .deb problems).


> It looks like the latest version expects stuff from previous versions
> to be in place. That doesn't help someone with no previous versions. I

This is unlikely. When you upgrade, all the old files are removed, and
the packaging hasn't changed at all b/w 4.6.1 and 4.6.2. There are
other problems afoot.

-- 
Ville M. Vainio
http://tinyurl.com/vainio

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