Installing Stellarium 10.1 in Hardy

[Derek Broughton]

Dotan Cohen wrote:

> Although I do have the Backports repo enabled, I cannot install the
> stellarium 10.1 .deb from Launchpad on Hardy, as I am missing many
> dependencies:
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of stellariu
> m:
...
>  stellarium depends on libgcc1 (>= 1:4.3.2); however:
>   Version of libgcc1 on system is 1:4.2.4-1ubuntu4.
... 
> Is there a quick way to solve this? I tried downloading and installing
> some of the dependencies, but they do not install either (they also
> have dependencies):
> $ sudo dpkg -i libgcc1_4.2.3-2ubuntu7_i386.deb
> dpkg - warning: downgrading libgcc1 from 1:4.2.4-1ubuntu4 to
> 1:4.2.3-2ubuntu7. 

Well it _did_ ask for 4.3.2, not 4.2.3 :-)  ("downgrading" is a clue)
-- 
derek