On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 22:51:41 -0400 mark acierno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ok as you will all quickly figure out - i'm new to this! > > For starters I have a sun ultra 2 running debian 3r2. > > I started out wanting to install shapelib since Xastir ( a ham radio program) > uses this library. So I downloaded it and then tried to install it. But time > after time I ran into compatibility / update issues. (Lib6, had a problem > with libshpl which needed an update of another file ect. ect) I I went to > the Debian web page and saw that there was an update cd. So I downloaded it, > burned a cd-rom and installed it on my Ultra 2. I ran apt-cdrom and put in > the update disk. I ran dselect and went through the steps updating certain > software (non of which see to be helpful in running shapelib). The problem is > now that the package manager in genome will not not launch! it looks like it > will start up but then with out so much as an error message - it quits! Is there a reason you can't upgrade to sarge? An apt-cache search reveals xastir 1.3.2 is available as a .deb in Sarge, which would be much easier; as all of it's dependencies are met automatically. :-) Provided your Sparc is a desktop machine for playing and not a server, which I would assume since you're trying to put an Xwindows program on it, there's not really much of a reason to avoid the upgrade to Sarge. I did a clean install on a Sun Ultra 10 a couple weeks ago; so far it's working great. HTH, Jacob