Synaptic = HELP !

[Jon Dixon]

Hi Vincent

I installed Gnumeric yesterday through Synaptic and it's version
1.4.0; just checked.

I am running hoary though.

HTH,

Jon

On Fri, 03 Dec 2004 11:20:03 +0100, Trouilliez Vincent
<vincent.trouilliez at wanadoo.fr> 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 
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