Hal Ashburner wrote:
Meld is very good. Don't know how it compares to kompare or kdiff3,
tkdiff etc.
Meld is my idea of awesome software, fwiw. Poweful + easy to use.
I looked it up this morning after an earlier recomendation. Yes it would be nice
but... I'm not going to risk it. For my PPC it wants to remove XFree and put on Xorg.
Thats too big a change for my likeing.
Homepage for folks to look at it: http://meld.sourceforge.net/
~$ sudo apt-get install meld
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
gcc-4.1-base gconf2 gconf2-common gsfonts-x11 libavahi-client3
libavahi-common-data
libavahi-common3 libavahi-glib1 libbonobo2-0 libbonobo2-common libcairo2-dev
libcupsys2
libcupsys2-dev libdbus-1-2 libdbus-glib-1-2 libfltk1.1 libfontenc1 libgcc1
libgconf2-4
libgcrypt11-dev libglib2.0-0 libglib2.0-dev libglu1-mesa libglu1-mesa-dev
libgnomecanvas2-0
libgnomecanvas2-common libgnomevfs2-0 libgnomevfs2-common libgnutls-dev
libgnutls13
libgpg-error-dev libgtk2.0-0 libgtk2.0-bin libgtk2.0-dev libhal-storage1 libhal1
liblzo-dev
libopencdk8-dev libpango1.0-0 libpango1.0-common libpango1.0-dev libpopt-dev
libqt3-headers
libqt3-mt libqt3-mt-dev libstdc++6 libtasn1-2-dev libwxbase2.6-0 libwxgtk2.6-0
libxfixes-dev
libxfixes3 libxfont1 python-glade2 python-gnome2 python-gtk2 python2.3-cairo
python2.3-glade2
python2.3-gnome2 python2.3-gtk2 python2.3-pyorbit qt3-dev-tools x11-common
x11proto-core-dev
x11proto-fixes-dev x11proto-input-dev x11proto-xext-dev xbase-clients
xfonts-encodings
xfonts-utils xkb-data xlibmesa-glu xserver-xfree86 xserver-xorg
xserver-xorg-core
xserver-xorg-input-all xserver-xorg-input-evdev xserver-xorg-input-kbd
xserver-xorg-input-mouse
xserver-xorg-input-synaptics xserver-xorg-input-wacom xserver-xorg-video-all
xserver-xorg-video-ati xserver-xorg-video-chips xserver-xorg-video-fbdev
xserver-xorg-video-glint xserver-xorg-video-imstt xserver-xorg-video-mga
xserver-xorg-video-nv
xserver-xorg-video-s3 xserver-xorg-video-s3virge xserver-xorg-video-savage
xserver-xorg-video-sis xserver-xorg-video-sisusb xserver-xorg-video-tdfx
xserver-xorg-video-trident xserver-xorg-video-v4l xserver-xorg-video-vga xutils
xutils-dev
Suggested packages:
libcairo2-doc libgcrypt11-doc libglib2.0-doc libgnomevfs2-bin libgnutls-doc
gnutls-bin
libgtk2.0-doc ttf-kochi-gothic ttf-kochi-mincho ttf-thryomanes ttf-baekmuk
ttf-arphic-gbsn00lp
ttf-arphic-bsmi00lp ttf-arphic-gkai00mp ttf-arphic-bkai00mp libpango1.0-doc
libqt3-mt-psql
libqt3-mt-mysql libqt3-mt-odbc libqt3-i18n qt3-doc x-window-system-core
x-window-system
mesa-utils read-edid libglide2 gsynaptics ksynaptics qsynaptics
Recommended packages:
zenity libglib2.0-data libgnomevfs2-extra gamin hicolor-icon-theme
x-ttcidfont-conf
libgl1-mesa-glx libgl1 libqt3-compat-headers python-gnome2-extras
python2.3-gnome2-extras
xresprobe discover1 xkeyboard-config
The following packages will be REMOVED:
libxft1 xfree86-common xlibmesa-glu-dev xserver-common
The following NEW packages will be installed:
gcc-4.1-base libavahi-client3 libavahi-common-data libavahi-common3 libavahi-glib1
libcairo2-dev
libcupsys2-dev libdbus-1-2 libdbus-glib-1-2 libfontenc1 libgcrypt11-dev
libglu1-mesa
libglu1-mesa-dev libgnutls-dev libgnutls13 libgpg-error-dev libhal-storage1
libhal1 liblzo-dev
libopencdk8-dev libpopt-dev libtasn1-2-dev libwxbase2.6-0 libxfixes-dev libxfixes3
libxfont1
meld python-glade2 python-gnome2 python-gtk2 python2.3-cairo python2.3-glade2
python2.3-gnome2
python2.3-gtk2 python2.3-pyorbit x11proto-core-dev x11proto-fixes-dev
x11proto-input-dev
x11proto-xext-dev xfonts-encodings xfonts-utils xkb-data xserver-xorg
xserver-xorg-core
xserver-xorg-input-all xserver-xorg-input-evdev xserver-xorg-input-kbd
xserver-xorg-input-mouse
xserver-xorg-input-synaptics xserver-xorg-input-wacom xserver-xorg-video-all
xserver-xorg-video-ati xserver-xorg-video-chips xserver-xorg-video-fbdev
xserver-xorg-video-glint xserver-xorg-video-imstt xserver-xorg-video-mga
xserver-xorg-video-nv
xserver-xorg-video-s3 xserver-xorg-video-s3virge xserver-xorg-video-savage
xserver-xorg-video-sis xserver-xorg-video-sisusb xserver-xorg-video-tdfx
xserver-xorg-video-trident xserver-xorg-video-v4l xserver-xorg-video-vga
xutils-dev
The following packages will be upgraded:
gconf2 gconf2-common gsfonts-x11 libbonobo2-0 libbonobo2-common libcupsys2
libfltk1.1 libgcc1
libgconf2-4 libglib2.0-0 libglib2.0-dev libgnomecanvas2-0 libgnomecanvas2-common
libgnomevfs2-0
libgnomevfs2-common libgtk2.0-0 libgtk2.0-bin libgtk2.0-dev libpango1.0-0
libpango1.0-common
libpango1.0-dev libqt3-headers libqt3-mt libqt3-mt-dev libstdc++6 libwxgtk2.6-0
qt3-dev-tools
x11-common xbase-clients xlibmesa-glu xserver-xfree86 xutils
32 upgraded, 68 newly installed, 4 to remove and 219 not upgraded.
Need to get 34.7MB of archives.
After unpacking 18.2MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n
Abort.
~$
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Michael Lake
Science Faculty, UTS
Ph: 9514 8232 Fx: 9514 1460
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