On 2008-03-31 23:28 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2008-03-31 21:15 +0200, andy wrote: > >> I am wanting to install Homebank on an Etch machine. Trouble is, it >> looks like it is only available for testing/Lenny and Sid. >> >> http://homebank.free.fr/index.php?id=20 >> http://packages.qa.debian.org/h/homebank.html >> >> Is it best to simply give this a miss, or to download a tar ball and >> convert it to a deb package via (is it) alien? Or, can one install a >> testing package on a stable machine? > > Only if you are willing to upgrade a lot of other packages as well, > namely the libraries that the package depends on. This is probably not > what you want, so a better way is to build homebank from source. You > can either try to backport the Debian package (if you're lucky, a simple > rebuild on Etch will do the trick) or use upstream's tarball. The > latter has the advantage that it's a newer version than the Debian > package, but you may have more problems finding out the build > dependencies; for Debian sources, `dpkg-buildpackage' will tell you what > is needed.
Apparently the latest upstream release (3.7) will _not_ build on Etch, because it requires Gtk+ 2.10 or higher. Etch has only Gtk+ 2.8.20 -- welcome to dependency hell. :-/ Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]