> On Sat, 9 Jun 2001, Barry Mathieu wrote: > > >I probably committed a major Debian Faux-Pax by editing my source file > >to temporarily point at the testing release to allow me to install > >plucker. That is, with testing (rather than stable) in my source file > >I, > > > >apt-get update > >apt-get install plucker > > > >To my surprise, no conflicts were indicated and plucker installed. > > Did you get an updated libc and a few other updates as well? I installed > plucker as the first package on a new system (the reason it took so long > to get back on this one: my pilot host was toasted) and got 3 updated > packages as well as plucker... >
No. Suprisingly I was simply allowed to install one package - plucker. Here is my output from, dpkg -s plucker Package: plucker Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: otherosfs Installed-Size: 1872 Maintainer: Mikael Hedin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Version: 1.1-2 Depends: python Recommends: netpbm (>= 9.10) Suggests: imagemagick, libjpeg-progs, pilot-link Conffiles: /etc/pluckerrc bbbc85e5210f98a9ba09c146b58f80ae Description: Pluck stuff from the web and read on your PalmOS device Plucks stuff from the web (or any URL), and encodes them apporopriately for viewing on a PalmOS device. Very flexible in the way sites are plucked, e.g. linkdepth, images etc. Includes the PalmOS viewer program. Further, as you have indicated, the required python package, requires libc6 >= 2.2.1-2 (see Debian testing). Here is my dpkg -s libc6: Package: libc6 Status: install ok installed Priority: required Section: base Installed-Size: 9568 Maintainer: Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Source: glibc Version: 2.1.3-18 Replaces: timezone, timezones, libc6-dev (<< 2.0.110-1), libc6-bin, locales (<< 2.1.3-5), gconv-modules Provides: gconv-modules Pre-Depends: ldso (>= 1.9.11-2.1) Recommends: locales Suggests: glibc-doc Conflicts: libc5 (<< 5.4.33-7), libpthread0 (<< 0.7-10), timezone, timezones, libwcsmbs, libc6-doc, libtricks, apt (<< 0.3.0), libglib1.2 (<< 1.2.1-2), libc6-bin, gconv-modules Conffiles: /etc/default/devpts fc857c5ac5fb84d80720ed4d1c624f6e Description: GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone data Contains the standard libraries that are used by nearly all programs on the system. This package includes shared versions of the standard C library and the standard math library, as well as many others. Timezone data is also included. Why did this plucker package installed without issuing failed dependancy errors I just don't know. > >I've even plucked a few sites, and wow, this is a useful package for me. > > > >Unfortunately, no images are being displayed on my pilot. I believe this > >may be due to the older version of netpbm in potato. Also, Zlib > >compression is missing from the viewer. > > On your PILOT?! Plucker's viewer_en.prc is incompatible with PalmOS 1, > which is on both the USR pilot models (the 1000 and 5000): it throws an > exception and pukes. If this is just a minor naming thing, you're beyond > my help, because I DO have a USR pilot 5000 :) If you do have a Pilot, > you need to get an upgrade. The USR pilots don't have a flashable OS ROM: > that was added about the time of the Pilot Professional. The good news > about this, however is that you'll have to get a 1 or 2MB upgrade board to > do this, the bad news is that it's about $50 last time I saw... > Hmmm... it appears I shouldn't have used the reference, "pilot". I am using a, Palm V. I simply use the pilot reference because I don't see palm referenced throughout GNU/Linux documentation. I often see the reference to, "pilot", e.g. pilot-link. > >I would like to obtain the functionality of viewing images on my pilot > >and Zlib compression. I'm hoping someone can offer a suggestion on how > >to overcome this dilemma. > > > >I've considered attempting to compile from sources. However, I am > >definitely a bit of a neophyte and it takes me so long to get things > >working, I worry about breaking them. For instance, I definitely fear > >screwing up the installed package list. > > apt-get -b source plucker: it won't hurt your installed packages list... > Yes, it would be a very good ongoing exercise for me to attempt to complete a source build. As I said, I still consider myself very much a novice. Thanks for your questions, they help to understand my installation more fully. Barry Mathieu