Installing Yank from source

[Dotan Cohen]

On 10/09/2007, Mario Vukelic <mario.vukelic at dantian.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2007-09-10 at 13:46 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> > I can download the Yank tarball from
> > http://packages.ubuntu.com/edgy/gnome/yank but not a .deb. Is there
> > nowhere to get .debs for repo software? I thought that it was all
> > stored as .debs.
>
> Yeah, that's what I would have suggested too, install the deb from
> feisty. In the packages search result, just click the link for your
> architecture, e.g., "i386":
> http://packages.ubuntu.com/cgi-bin/download.pl?arch=i386&file=pool%
> 2Funiverse%2Fy%2Fyank%
> 2Fyank_0.2.1-7.3_i386.deb&md5sum=d325000f22bd7b8144666c6c9a9d7c60&arch=i386&type=main
>
> If you doubleclick the downloaded deb, it will run gdebi, which will in
> turn install the needed dependencies from the feisty repo, as it should.
>
>

Thanks, I did get that far by now. It's failing on libpisock8, a
palm-pilot sync app. I'm having a hard time getting that installed...

Dotan Cohen

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