Re: Libgsf 1.10 !!!!!!!

["J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)" <fsmla xinara org>]

On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 11:07:24 +0100, Trouilliez Vincent wrote:
> I don't know how to configure Synaptic to use this ftp site. I tried but
> obviously failed.

I haven't use Synaptic myself. You may want to try to configure the Ubuntu
site in /etc/apt/sources.list, then do "apt-get update" and then see how
things work out when you do "apt-get --simulate install gnumeric", or see if
Synaptic picks up on the /etc/apt/sources.list settings.

> So I just started gFTP (a ftp client) to download gnumeric, and
> gnumeric-common packages. but when I try to install the main gnumeric
> package (dpkg -i ) it says that gnumeric-common must be installed first.
> But then when I try to install the 'common' package, it tells me that it
> needs the main package first !!! I don't see any solution to that ! :-/

There are a few packages that have these so-called "cyclical dependencies"
(the C++ libraries are a well known example). This is not a bug. You can
install them through dpkg by feeding the packages to a single dpkg line:
        dpkg -i gnumeric.deb gnumeric-common.deb
though the preferred solution is of course to use a higher level package
management tool.

HTH,
Ray
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