On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 23:59:41 -0500 Jacob S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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. Yikes! Sorry about the lack of line-wrapping. I had to do a new install of Sarge on my desktop (x86) machine the other day and evidently I don't have Sylpheed configured properly yet. Jacob