Hello,
I'm quite a newbie to Linux, however it has become my primary OS. I get caught in pitfalls with regards library dependencies. I'd appreciate if someone could give me pointers on how I can avoid these. I'm using Debian 2.2 and a few of the packages I want to install require libraries that are too new and are sometimes part of the unstable suite of Debian. Currently I'm trying to install KDE 2.2.2 on my system. My system has two versions of Qt, one is an older version (2.0.xx) which I require (I think) for a particular package I have installed. This had been installed as a deb package and therefore shows up in dselect. The other Qt is 2.3.xx which I installed as a tarball. I have the enviornment variable QTDIR set to point to this. This Qt doesn't show up in the package database. The KDE I have downloaded is in deb packages and requires QT > 2.2 (which I have). In similar situations i.e. when I have some libraries on my machine but which I'd installed as tar balls and don't show up in my package distribution, dpkg fails to install packages depending on these. Is there a way where I can work around this i.e. mixing tarball libraries and deb packages??? Also someone suggested that apt-get is a reliable tool to prevent library dependency issues. However, I'm having trouble using apt-get to install deb packages I already have downloaded. It seems apt-get requires the Packages file (even if I'm downloading directly fromthe net thru apt-get). Therefore most of the time I'm unable to use apt-get. I think maybe I don't understand the proper way to use apt-get, could someone help me if there's a way to get around the above. Thanks __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/
