Hi Dick,
> Once in awhile I have some time to experiment. Today I'm trying to > install freewrl on my Ubuntu 10.04 machine. I have a .deb file > (freewrl_1.22.101_i386) which I got from: > > http://download.tuxfamily.org/myosotis/freewrl/package/lenny/i386/ Normally it isn't recommended to grab just any .deb off of a web site and try to install it. That is because it may be built for some version of Debian or Ubuntu that is not the same as what you are using. You *can* do it, but it is one of those things you do only "if you know what you are doing". > When I try to install it I get an error message: > > Error: Dependency is not satisfiable: libmozjsld (>= 1.9~b4) In your URL above, that package is likely for an old version of Debian (named lenny), so a recent version of ubuntu doesn't have the proper supporting libraries (causing your error). Instead, try running: sudo apt-get install freewrl Failing that, run synaptic or aptitude and search for the package. The name may have changed slightly, but read the package descriptions. On my Debian unstable distribution, that package isn't available. It may be that it has been supplanted by a newer package by a different name. You could search the package list for "vrml" and "x3d" and see what comes up. You could also search around on freshmeat and sourceforge for alternative packages and then check aptitude/synaptic for those names. Note that in aptitude, you may search by regular expressions, so "free.*wrl" would match "freewrl" and "freeANYTHINGwrl". Not sure about synaptic. Hope that helps, tim _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
