Synaptic = HELP !

[Michel De Gouveia]

Trouilliez Vincent wrote:

> I hope a Ubuntu developper can help me here ! :-/
>
> Gnumeric 1.4.0 has just been released a few days ago.
>
> Some very kind gentleman informed me that on this ftp site : 
> ftp://ftp.ubuntulinux.org:/ubuntu/pool/main
>
> there are already .deb packages for it.  this is obviously a Ubuntu 
> site, so I thought, how comes that this new version doesn't show when 
> I click on the "reload/refresh" button in Synaptic ??
>
> So, I made a (very pathetic) atttempt at adding this address into 
> sources.list, which (obviously) failed miserably : it says that it 
> failed to downaload the index file or something along that line.
>
> So I just pulled all the packages (ie, it still needed many 
> dependencies) using gFTP.
>
> But I am running into a WEIRD problem.  Basically there are two 
> packages for gnumeric, the 'main' package and the 'common' package.
>
> Well, if I try installing one of them by hand, using the 'dpkg -i' 
> command (the only command I know really !! :-/ ), it tells me that 
> 'common' must be installed first. Fair enough. But when I do that, 
> then 'common' tells me that the other package must be installed first 
> ! See ? There is no solution  ! Same for libgtk2.0. It needs 
> libgtk-common. if I try to install one, it complains that the other 
> one needs installing, and vice versa !! :o((((
>
> Please heeeeeelp. :o(
>
> So, thank you Ubuntu devs for packaging it SO fast, but could you 
> please give me the user manual to actually get Synaptic to take this 
> server into consideration and look after these dependency weirdness 
> for me ! :-/
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Vince 

Have you got the hoary repository in synaptics ?
If not, just add
http:\archive.ubuntu.com\ubuntu
hoary
main 
in synaptic repository.
and reload