is there any reason installing publican would fail?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Thu, 20 May 2010, Tommy Trussell wrote:

> On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 1:37 PM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:
> >
> >  a friend dropped me a note and reported that when he installed
> > the publican publishing package, he needed to install some
> > additional debian packages, but didn't provide any more detail.
> >
> >  i just installed it and i saw nothing wrong so what could he have
> > meant?  (still waiting to hear back.)  could he mean additional
> > debian packages to support additional, optional features?  if
> > anyone else has installed it, was there anything untoward or
> > incomplete about that install that you noticed?  so far, i see
> > nothing out of sorts so i'm a bit puzzled.
> >
> > rday
>
> If this person installed a publican package that was already
> compiled for Debian then it's very possible it is not compatible.
> The packages need to be compiled to match the distro (Ubuntu,
> presumably, or whatever version of Debian your friend is running).

... snip ...

  just found out that he had installed onto the beta of 10.04, where
there were still a few issues with dependencies that appear to have
been resolved by the final release, so everything's cool.

rday

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