On Sat, 29 Nov 1997, Wintermute wrote:
> > One problem which I'm encountering right now is that wwwoffle wants
> > glibc6, and I've been taking the moderate approach to upgrades, i.e.:
> > the latest stable. So, I'm thinking of running a squid version since
> > wwwoffle requires glibc6, but there's a squid version that'll use 5. I
> > like glibc6, I just don't want the pains of an unstable release, even
> > though I have room for a spare distro on my hd.
> >
> Sometimes you might be surprised at what you can do by compiling the
> program yourself. The gimp .99.15 package in the Debian distribution
> claims it needs libc6, but if you get the source distribution yourself
> you will find it compiles just fine under libc5.
>
> This may also be the case with wwwoffle. To be honest, wwwoffle sounds
> to be the more intelligent solution anyways.
>
It is worth a try. I have wwwoffle_1.2.de in a backup directory, but it
requires libc6 as well.
So get wwwoffle.dsc, .diff.gz and .orig.tar.gz from source/
Do dpkg-source -x wwwoffle.dsc
CD into the sourcedir.
./debian/rules binary
Do a quick prayer.
If it worked:
dpkg -i wwwoffle.deb
Ciao,
Martin
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