Synaptic = HELP !

Jon Dixon dixon.jon at gmail.com
Fri Dec 3 13:17:58 UTC 2004


Hi Vincent

I am not a developer *but* I imagine it will go in the codebase for
testing prior to the release of Hoary final next April.

- Jon

On Fri, 03 Dec 2004 13:48:52 +0100, Trouilliez Vincent
<vincent.trouilliez at wanadoo.fr> wrote:
>  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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