Re: Debian installation of gnome-db fails

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On 05 Jan 2001 04:27:01 -0500, Bill Barnes wrote:
> Hello List:
> 

Hi Bill


> Please tell me what I have missed.
> 
> Here is sources.list
> #Debian
> #deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian potato main contrib non-free
> deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian potato main contrib non-free #KDE
> deb http://kde.tdyc.com potato main qt1apps crypto optional #helixcode
> deb http://spidermonkey.helixcode.com/distributions/debian woody main 
> #gnome-db
> deb ftp://ftp.gnome-db.org/pub/gnome-db/debian ./
> deb-src ftp://ftp.gnome-db.org/pub/gnome-db/debian ./
> 
> Here is a log from the install run.
> kgb04:/home/billb# apt-get install gnome-db Reading Package Lists... 0% 
> Reading Package Lists... 100% Reading Package Lists... Done Building 
> Dependency Tree... 0% Building Dependency Tree... 0% Building Dependency 
> Tree... 50% Building Dependency Tree... 50% Building Dependency Tree... Done 
> Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
> requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
> distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
> or been moved out of Incoming. Since you only requested a single operation it 
> is extremely likely that
> the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
> that package should be filed.
> The following information may help to resolve the situation: Sorry, but the 
> following packages have unmet dependencies:
>   gnome-db: Depends: libbonobo2 but it is not installable
>             Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1.97) but 2.1.3-10 is to be installed
>             Depends: libesd0 (>= 0.2.20) or
>                      libesd-alsa0 (>= 0.2.20) but it is not going to be 
> installed
>             Depends: libgal2 but it is not installable
>             Depends: libgconf11 (>= 0.11) but it is not installable
>             Depends: libgda0 but it is not going to be installed
>             Depends: libghttp1 (>= 1.0.8-2) but 1.0.7-helix1 is to be 
> installed
>             Depends: libgtkhtml4 (>= 0.6.1-5) but it is not installable
>             Depends: liboaf0 (>= 0.6.1-3) but it is not installable
>             Depends: xlibs (>= 4.0.1-11) but it is not installable
> E: Sorry, broken packages
> 
I'm not sure of what I'm going to say, so if Akira says something else, believe

Akira and not me.

gnome-db/libgda packages are made in woody, which uses a different
glibc, so I guess it's got something to do with that. I would suggest
you to build the debian packages yourself. It's easy:

cd libgda && dpkg-buildpackage
cd gnome-db && dpkg-buildpackage

(is that correct Akira?)

Of course, you will need all those missing libs (oaf, bonobo2, etc), but
those should be available for potato (I think) from the helixcode site.

cheers