[Gllug] Debian

[Paul Cupis]

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On Monday 20 October 2003 10:24, Peter Childs 
<blue.dragon at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> 	I've taken the plung and installed debain (to replace my old
> redhat 8.0)
> 	I used knoppix and then installed it to the harddisk.
> 	Once the system cam up and I tryied to install using apt some
> packages I wanted....
>
> 	Bad Move, Very Bad Move.
>
> 1. the package dependancies on knoppix are broken. I actually ended
> up removing kde and xcursors-dev using dselect before apt would even
> pass the time of day!

I can only presume that your install is now trying to track unstable. As 
the name says, it can can unstable.

The kde meta-package in Debian/unstable is not currently installable 
(http://wiki.debian.net/DebianKDE)

> 2. Installed mozilia-thunderbird (The new email package) no problems
> I think its quite good. Unfortinally...
>
> mozilia-thunderbird-enigmail (Encription for thunderbird) needs
> thunderbird but
> enigmail has a file also in thunderbird which conflicts hence these
> two packages will not live together and will not live without each
> other! 

This is a known bug in the current mozilla-firebird packages.

From: Gian Piero Carrubba <gpcarrubba at libero.it>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit at bugs.debian.org>
Subject: mozilla-thunderbird-enigmail: trying to overwrite file, not 
installable
Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2003 12:51:04 +0200

Package: mozilla-thunderbird-enigmail
Version: 0.2-1
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

http://bugs.debian.iorg/216506

> libxcursor-dev and xlibheaders (or somthing like that had the
> same problem on the knoppix install before I removed the second one)

libxcursor in Debian/unstable recently had some problems.

> 3. pine does not seam to be available for debain any more :(
> (Installed from source)

It is not available as a binary package, and is non-free.

- From the non-free 'pine-tracker' package (binary package):

| pine-tracker
| ------------
| 
| This package warns you about outdated pine packages in your system.
| It compares its own version against the installed version of pine,
| pico, etc. and suggests the user to update those packages if old 
| packages are found.
| 
| Follows the recipe given by postinst, in case you want to read it
| here:
| 
| To update the packages built from the pine source, make sure you have
| source URIs in /etc/apt/sources.list and run the following commands,
| as root, in a scratch directory:
| 
| # apt-get --only-source build-dep pine
| # apt-get --only-source -b source pine
| 
| Then use dpkg -i to install the generated debian packages.

Regards,

Paul Cupis
- -- 
paul at cupis.co.uk

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