Re: Help: Installing Ximian on Debian 2.2

["James Hamilton" <JAMESH davistl com>]

I had similar problems.  I wound up wiping everything after 
that damn installer hosed my system.  The way I do it now 
on every Debian/Gnome box I set up is by adding the line
deb http://red-carpet.ximian.com/debian stable main
to /etc/apt/sources.list

Then go into dselect and select task-ximian-gnome.  It all 
just works, and then you are managing everything with 
dselect.  I guess you could put all those deb packages on 
Ximian's ftp site on a CD and then point apt at that, but it 
seems silly.  Debian is a connected OS.  Security updates
and new releases for Debian and Ximian come out often.  
That's the main advantage of apt-get.  No more CDs.  
If you want, don't delete your downloaded deb files and 
copy them from /var/cache to a CD for backup.

I maintain one Debian GNU/Linux Gnome box at home 
over a <56k connection, and it works fine, as long as I 
let dselect do its downloading at night while I sleep. :)

My apt sources are as follows:
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ potato main non-free contrib
deb http://security.debian.org potato/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://red-carpet.ximian.com/debian stable main

My system has current Debian, security patches and 
current Ximian.  To upgrade to current I type (from root):
ds<TAB><CR>        (which runs dselect on my system)
1<CR>
3<CR>
<CR>

Then everything is upgrading happily.  Nine keystrokes 
to get current :)

>>>> Ben <ben javacoder net> 11/21/01 05:57PM >>>
>Hi,
>
>I have been trying to install Ximian on Debian 2.2 for a week now 
>and I have still not got it sorted!
>
>I have installed Debian 2.2 with only the X stuff selected (during 
>install in simple mode). I then installed Xfree86 4.1.0 to run X 
>and configured that.
>
>To install Ximian I downloaded the packages, installer and xml files 
>from the Ximian site and then burned them onto CD. I copied the files 
>then to my /home directory and then though X I ran the installer 
>program.
>
>It launches ok and displays the installer dialog. It then checked 
>for dependancies and found some. At that point I stopped the install 
>process and added the packages that it said it needed manually.
>
>After configuring sawfish-gnome and all the other packages it complained 
>about, I re-ran the installer and it keeps crashing with a Segment 
>fault when it checks dependancies.
>
>The console I launch the installer from has a load of output in it 
>including:-
>
>--- FAILED ---
>Total failed: 0
>--- CONFLICTS ---
>Exiting install deps page
>Entering install deps page
>Adding package big-buddy
>Adding package liborbit0
>Adding package orbit
>Adding package gnome-control-center
>Adding package libcapplet0
>Adding package gnome-core
>Adding package gnome-applets
>Adding package gnome-bin
>Adding package gnome-help
>Adding package gnome-help-data
>Adding package gnome-panel
>Adding package gnome-panel-data
>Adding package gnome-session
>Adding package gnome-terminal
>Adding package libpanel-applet0
>Adding package libga16
>Adding package libaudiofile0
>NOT adding package sawfish
>
>..and then that is all...
>
>Obviously it isn't working, but what is the best way to go about 
>installing Debian and Ximian? I would prefer a method of creating 
>a CD with all the packages and then installing it that way, rather 
>that having to have a network (Internet) connection.
>
>If someone could maybe let me know a good bottom up installation 
>route, then I could follow that.
>
>
>---