apt-get wants to remove gnucash!?

Robert Graham Merkel rgmerk@mira.net
Tue, 13 Feb 2001 22:55:23 +1100


Robert Graham Merkel writes:
 > Jonathan David Wheelhouse writes:
 >  > Hi
 >  > 
 >  > Already sent this to debian-user but didn't get any really helpful responses.
 >  > 
 >  > Needless to say I _don't_ want gnucash removed but the following seems
 >  > to be a mistake in dependencies.
 >  > 
 >  > I've cut other bits out that seem to be irrelevant.
 >  > 
 >  > apt-get dist-upgrade says
 >  > The following packages will be REMOVED:
 >  >   gnucash guile1.3 libguile6 libguile6-slib libguile9-dev libguppi-dev 
 >  > 
 >  > dselect reveals
 >  > 
 >  > gnucash depends on guile1.3
 >  > ...
 >  > gnucash depends on libguile9 (>= 1.4-6)
 >  > 
 >  > guile1.3 depends on libguile6
 >  > 
 >  > libguile9 conflicts with libguile6
 >  > 
 >  > Does anyone have any ideas?

Hang on, my brain is rotting here.  The guile1.3 dependancy is wrong
- it should be guile1.4, or better still taken out entirely (guile is
needed for the build process, but only libguile9 is needed to *run*
gnucash). 

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