package installation question

[Wouter Eerdekens]

Steve Zatz wrote:
> The version of pysqlite in the ubuntu repositories is 0.4.3, which has
> some known problems.  I am not familiar with debian but I see that in
> the collection of "testing" packages is pysqlite 0.5.1-3 and I have
> downloaded that package from the debian site as a .deb package. 
> Having done that I am not sure what to do next to get that package
> installed.  It looks like packages can be installed with dpkg but
> before I screw things up, I thought I would ask if dpkg is the right
> approach and exactly how you use it in this situation.  Thanks.
> 

You can always run

dpkg -i --no-act pysqlite*deb

to test if the install will succeed. Any dependency problems will be 
reported to you. If all went ok, install the package by removing the 
--no-act from the above command.

Wouter

-- 
Wouter Eerdekens
                                     "Revenge is a dish best served cold"
retuow at xs4all.be                              -- Ancient Klingon Proverb
http://www.haggis.be/