Problems building Gaim
I would like to install gaim from unstablle.I am on testing. I edited my sources.list to reflect unstable sources( also added stable ), main, contrib and non-free Then I did : apt-get update apt-get build-dep gaim and I get the error: E: Build-Depends dependency for gaim cannot be satisfied because no available versions of package libperl-dev can satisfy version requirements I tried and took a look on aptitude and there I have gaim1:0.64-3 and gaim-gnome, a virtual pachage containing gaim1:0.70-1.backports.org.1. If I call the dependencies on it I'll get an unavailable libperl5.6(=5.6.1-8.3) and a sugestion for gnome-panel or kicker docker higher then the ones I can install ( of course, this is sarge).I do have libperl5.8.0-18 ( and -dev ) My question is, how do I satisfy the anavailable dependency matter? I am very new to Debian and I am still trying to seek my way around things. Thank you for helping . John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems building Gaim
John Peter wrote: I would like to install gaim from unstablle.I am on testing. I edited my sources.list to reflect unstable sources( also added stable ), main, contrib and non-free Then I did : apt-get update apt-get build-dep gaim John I am also very new to Debian, but I'm not sure I understand why you didn't do it this way: apt-get update apt-get install gaim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems building Gaim
But gaim is already available as a binary for you. No need to compile it if you just apt-get update apt-get install gaim Ralph Alvy wrote: John Peter wrote: I would like to install gaim from unstablle.I am on testing. I edited my sources.list to reflect unstable sources( also added stable ), main, contrib and non-free Then I did : apt-get update apt-get build-dep gaim John I am also very new to Debian, but I'm not sure I understand why you didn't do it this way: apt-get update apt-get install gaim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems building Gaim
On Sat, 01 Nov 2003 15:20:46 -0800 Ralph Alvy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Peter wrote: I would like to install gaim from unstablle.I am on testing. I edited my sources.list to reflect unstable sources( also added stable ), main, contrib and non-free Then I did : apt-get update apt-get build-dep gaim John I am also very new to Debian, but I'm not sure I understand why you didn't do it this way: apt-get update apt-get install gaim One reason. The debian maintainer has a weird numbering scheme. Gaim is at 0.7.1, not 1:0.6.4. Best to grab from source. And I grabbed source directly from gaim.soureforge.com. I by passed aptitude all together. I them used checkinstall to created a deb file once I compiled it. -- Rodney D. Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User #96112 ICQ#: AIM#: YAHOO: 18002350 mailman452 mailman42_5 They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. Ben Franklin - 1759 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Problems building Gaim
On Sat, Nov 01, 2003, at 19:17 -0800, Rodney D. Myers wrote: ... I am also very new to Debian, but I'm not sure I understand why you didn't do it this way: apt-get update apt-get install gaim One reason. The debian maintainer has a weird numbering scheme. Gaim is at 0.7.1, not 1:0.6.4. The version in testing is 0.6.4. Currently, gaim is at 0.7.2 and Robert McQueen just uploaded it to unstable today/yesterday. You can still obtain gaim in the testing distribution, it's just an older version. You might also be able to find a backport someplace. Best to grab from source. And I grabbed source directly from gaim.soureforge.com. I by passed aptitude all together. I them used checkinstall to created a deb file once I compiled it. There's no real need to do that, unless you want it managed by dpkg explicitly. If you compile gaim, you can just place it in /usr/local (which is done by default) and run 'make uninstall' from the source tree when you want to uninstall it. -- scott c. linnenbringer[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.panix.com/~sl [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
