Synaptic = HELP !

[Trouilliez Vincent]

Hi Michael and all who helped,

Thanks for shedding some light.

Turns out that depsite dpkg returning lots of dependency errors,
Gnumeric somehow got installed, seems to be working fine somehow.

I find it extremely impressive that Gnumeric 1.4.0 made it in Ubuntu
litterally in real time, so I may try Hoary then. After all what do I
have to lose, I can just install Hoary on a new hard drive and keep
Warty as well, just in case I am having serious troubles with Hoary.

If I may ask you just one stupid question.... if I updgrade to Hoary....
once you have finished designing  'usplash', will it be available to
hoary as soon, or will it only make it to the stable release, in april ?


Vince



> You can easily add the "hoary" distribution to the list of your
> repositories. I wouldn't recommend to do this unless you are aware of
> the risks. It's a development branch that may fail spectacular. If you
> nevertheless want to use it go to the synaptic repository editor and
> search the "warty" distribution and change it to "hoary".
> (you may also have a look at
> https://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/PinningHowto for yet another way to
> get gnumeric without complettely switching to hoary).
> 
> > So I just pulled all the packages (ie, it still needed many
> > dependencies) using gFTP.
> [..]
> 
> I wouldn't recommand that method it leads to all sorts of problem (as
> you already experienced) when you try to hunt down the dependencies
> manually and try to install them via "dpkg -i <pkg>". Apt (and
> synaptic) are really good at keeping your system in a consistent
> state. 
>  
> bye,
>  Michael


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