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
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>>> 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.
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>>>>>> -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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>>>>
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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
>
>   
I also noticed there are two more source packages you may need to 
compile... Looks like everything you may need is at 
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=954