Installing debs from Mepis

[Nigel Ridley]

Paul Lemmons wrote:
> -------- Original Message  --------
> Subject: Re:Installing debs from Mepis
> From: Nigel Ridley <nigel at rmk.co.il>
> To: Kubuntu Help and User Discussions <kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Date: 05/01/2008 01:15 PM
>> Pete wrote:
>>   
>>> On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 10:53 AM, Nigel Ridley <nigel at rmk.co.il> wrote:
>>>
>>>     
>>>> Pete wrote:
>>>>       
>>>>> I wouldn't add the repository, you never know what kind of different
>>>>> versions or different builds of the same versions of stuff are in there,
>>>>>         
>>>> and
>>>>       
>>>>> apt will just blindly install whatever it sees as the "most recent
>>>>>         
>>>> version"
>>>>       
>>>>> of stuff, without regard to where it's coming from. Just pull that deb
>>>>>         
>>>> from
>>>>       
>>>>> their repository and install it via dpkg.
>>>>>
>>>>> -p.
>>>>>         
>>>> How do I do that? I know it sounds a nooby question but I've never had the
>>>> occasion to do
>>>> something like that before.
>>>>       
>>> Where did you find the package? I'm having a ton of trouble finding the
>>> Mepis repositories.  In any event, find the repository, find the package,
>>> download it to your hard drive,  then either:
>>>
>>> 1. "sudo dpkg -i /path/to/foo.deb" (without the quotes, and replacing the
>>> slug filepath with the actual path to the package, probably
>>> /home/you/foo.deb)
>>>
>>> 2. Open it in Gdebi if you have that installed, and click "install."
>>>
>>> best-
>>> p.
>>>
>>>
>>>     
>> I found the repository here:
>> ftp://ftp.mepis.com/mepis/dists/mepis-7.0/main/binary-i386/
>> but on checking I can't find any mention of bibletime :-(
>>
>> Oh well - next step - compile! [http://www.bibletime.info/software_installation.html] or 
>> could I use one of the rpm's and use alien on it? If so, which one - fedora, redhat or suse?
>>
>> Blessings,
>>
>> Nigel
>>
>>   
> http://teharris.net/mepis/pool/main/b/bibletime/bibletime_1.6.5_i386.deb
> 
> then
> 
> sudo dpkg -i /path/to/foo.deb
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

I tried installing the above but got dependency problems:

nigel at laptop:~/Downloads$ sudo dpkg -i bibletime_1.6.5_i386.deb
(Reading database ... 181784 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace bibletime 1.6.4.dfsg-0ubuntu3 (using bibletime_1.6.5_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement bibletime ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of bibletime:
  bibletime depends on libclucene0 (>= 0.9.16a-1); however:
   Package libclucene0 is not installed.
dpkg: error processing bibletime (--install):
  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
  bibletime

So, I tried the obvious (install libclucene0) but also got dependency problems:

nigel at laptop:~/Downloads$ sudo dpkg -i libclucene0_0.9.16a-1_i386.deb
[sudo] password for nigel:
Selecting previously deselected package libclucene0.
dpkg: regarding libclucene0_0.9.16a-1_i386.deb containing libclucene0:
  libclucene0ldbl conflicts with libclucene0 (<< 0.9.16a-3)
   libclucene0 (version 0.9.16a-1) is to be installed.
dpkg: error processing libclucene0_0.9.16a-1_i386.deb (--install):
  conflicting packages - not installing libclucene0
Errors were encountered while processing:
  libclucene0_0.9.16a-1_i386.deb

So I will now write to the maintainer [ubuntu-motu at lists.ubuntu.com]

Blessings,

Nigel

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