[Klug-general] Administration software for schools

[Mike Rentell]

Now I really am baffled. I installed Debian Lenny (beta version) under 
VirtualBox hosted on Mandriva 2008.1 and that all went OK. Then I 
downloaded the LedgerSMB deb file and stored that in 
/home/mick/downloads and then clicked on it.

Up popped the message box - 'Debian does not recognise this archive'.

I think I'm gonna give up with ledgersmb. It's been fun.

MikeR

Karl Lattimer wrote:
> It looks like ledgersmb was developed for a much much earlier version of
> perl, and probably packaged for a much much earlier version of redhat.
> 
> Its actually asking for the wrong package here I think. :/ 
> 
> Get the spec files, and rebuild it with proper fedora deps rather than
> whatever it's got in it... Sounds far too outdated and unmaintained to
> be usable software though.
> 
> BR,
>  K
> 
> On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 15:46 +0000, Mike Rentell wrote:
>> Yeah, I did try the Fedora offering of the missing package and it simply 
>> wouldn't go in. Then I googled 'Mandriva perl' and it found one. Still 
>> don't work.
>>
>> I wondered if the problem was because ledgersmb asks for perl-base 
>> greater than 2.5.10.0 but what my distro has installed by default is 
>> version 5.8.8-12.2. Has Perl-Base really gone on that far since 
>> ledgersmb was compiled? Would that be a problem? How far back are they 
>> compatible?
>>
>> MikeR
>>
>> Karl Lattimer wrote:
>>> On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 15:18 +0000, George Prowse wrote:
>>>> Mike Rentell wrote:
>>>>> Well, I tried ledgersmb, downloaded it and descended into dependency hell.
>>>>>
>>>>> The package requires Perl (got that), PostgreSQL (installed that) Apache 
>>>>> (installed that) but it failed on perl-Smart-Comments. Downloaded that 
>>>>> but that failed installation due to missing perl-base >=2.5.10.0. 
>>>>> However I have already got perl-base version 5.8.8-12.2 on board.
>>>>>
>>>> Oooh, let me guess. You're using a rpm based distro?!?!
>>> I doubt that has anything to do with it... Sounds to me like a package
>>> built for opensuse that someone is trying to use on fedora. RPM is a
>>> system of packaging which can work on various organisations of
>>> distributions, unlike deb which tends to only really work on a debian
>>> style organisation...