Installing debs from Mepis

[Joel Oliver]

Nigel Ridley wrote:
> Paul Lemmons wrote:
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>> -------- 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:
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>>>> On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 10:53 AM, Nigel Ridley <nigel at rmk.co.il> wrote:
>>>>
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>>>>> Pete wrote:
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>>>>>> 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,
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>>>>> and
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>>>>>> apt will just blindly install whatever it sees as the "most recent
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>>>>> version"
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>>>>>> of stuff, without regard to where it's coming from. Just pull that deb
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>>>>> from
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>>>>>> their repository and install it via dpkg.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -p.
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>>>>> 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.
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>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>>
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>>> 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
>>>
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>> http://teharris.net/mepis/pool/main/b/bibletime/bibletime_1.6.5_i386.deb
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>> then
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>> sudo dpkg -i /path/to/foo.deb
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> 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
>
>   
Looks Like you're getting stuck in "dependency hell" as they call it.  
You would probably be better off getting the source code and compiling 
it.... Don't start chasing down every new dep... you may find it 
'spiders' out into needing more and more and more until you get down to 
installing a newer libc6 and then your system is basically hosed as 
every distro relies on this and removing this will require removing 
everything.......... 

It looks as if the newer version was compiled on a 'newer' system.  But 
if you can get the source and install build-essential (sudo apt-get 
install build-essential) and read the README file it may be a simple 
./configure, ./make, sudo make install to compile it to your system...   
YMMV.


Joel.