Installing 1.6 on Debian unstable (sid)

James A. Treacy treacy@debian.org
Tue, 19 Jun 2001 11:36:42 -0400


On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 11:40:13AM +0100, Gareth Jones wrote:
> Having a little trouble here. I get a complaint about a missing dependency
> (libgwrapguile0 >= 0.9.1). That deb isn't available in unstable, so I make
> the assumption that libgwrapguile1 (which is installed) should be adequate
> (is this a correct assumption)?
> 
> Then I install gnucash with:
> 
> dpkg --force-depends gnucash-etc.
> 
> This works, and  I can run the program...unfortunately, every time I try to
> install something with dselect (using apt as the source), dselect uninstalls
> gnucash. This even happens when I tell it to "hold" the gnucash package.
> 
> Any hints or pointers? As you can tell, I'm not too hot with dselect /
> apt-get etc.
> 
As I wrote in an earlier thread on this very problem:
> The problem is that gnucash was accidentally compiled against
> libgwrapguile0 instead of libgwrapguile1. Then, just after gnucash
> 1.6.0 was added to the distribution, libgwrapguile0 was removed (due
> to it's source not being available. I'm guessing the addition of
> libgwrapguile1 caused this).
> 
> I have reported the problem to the wrapguile maintainer (who also
> happens to be the gnucash packager). I expect it will be fixed
> either tomorrow or the next day. If anyone would like a copy of
> the old libgwrapguile0 .deb, you can grab from
> http://people.debian.org/~treacy/libgwrapguile0_0.9.12-3_i386.deb

To address your question about beating dselect into submission: a
package on hold in dselect by pressing '='. I'm not positive this
works in this case, though. Try it.

-- 
James (Jay) Treacy
treacy@debian.org