On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 02:54:54AM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: > It worked. It took a while to get libgd2-xpm-dev installed on my system > because I had previously installed gnuplot. Gnuplot install had automatically > installed libgd2-noxpm and the two are incompatible. Of course, gnuplot > counld have installed libgd2-xpm, but that is not how the package install > script is written. > I don't know much at all about writing a successful Debian package, but I > imagine this behavior of the gnuplot package will provide an interesting > extra challenge.
gnuplot depends on "libgd2-noxpm (>= 2.0.36~rc1~dfsg) | libgd2-xpm (>= 2.0.36~rc1~dfsg)", so it should not be a problem. Installing libgd2-xpm-dev with aptitude, it just asks me if it should remove libgd2-noxpm (without saying anything about gnuplot because of its dependencies). Anyway, if dataplot doesn't need to write xpm files, you could simply have installed libgd2-noxpm-dev. ciao Riccardo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-science-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20101219135121.ga2...@eddie.casa.mia