See comments inserted. Thanks Bob for the idea. James. On Sat, 16 Aug 2003 02:37 pm, Bob Proulx wrote: > James Steward<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I recently downloaded VariCAD for Debian 3.0 for a trial run. > > Is that a free trial that anyone could try? Yes. > > > It is supplied as a .deb package and I simply used a dpkg -i > > varicad....deb command to install. dpkg complained that there were > > missing dependencies for kdelibs3. > > Could you post the 'dpkg --info *.deb' output? That would list the > Depends: header and we would be able to see exactly what it depends > upon. I suspect there is a problem there. > kingfisher:/home/james# dpkg --info varicad-en_9.0.1.0-1_i386.deb new debian package, version 2.0. size 7949742 bytes: control archive= 52847 bytes. 17 bytes, 1 lines conffiles 1284 bytes, 24 lines control 156588 bytes, 2208 lines md5sums 1866 bytes, 64 lines * postinst #!/bin/sh 1081 bytes, 46 lines * postrm #!/bin/sh 202 bytes, 7 lines * prerm #!/bin/sh Package: varicad-en Version: 9.0.1.0-1 Section: x11 Priority: optional Architecture: i386 Depends: kdelibs3 (>= 4:2.2.2-1), libc6 (>= 2.2.4-4), libglib1.2 (>= 1.2.0), libgtk1.2 (>= 1.2.10-4), libqt2-gl (>= 3:2.3.1-1), libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 (>= 1:2.95.4-0.010810), xlibmesa3 | libgl1, xlibs (>> 4.1.0), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4) Provides: varicad Installed-Size: 28148 Maintainer: Pavel Krebs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Source: varicad
> > I have the kdelibs4 installed, so I thought well I'll install the > > kdelibs3 as well. No way. > > Where did you install kdelibs4 from? Debian 'unstable'? Or a > 'stable' backport? A debian 3.0 distrib with "extra packages" on CD. > > > dselect was quite clear that this was a bad idea. > > The packages list themselves as conflicting. APT is just doing what > it can with the resulting conflicting rules it is given. > > > I ended up unpacking the kdelib3 .deb package manually and moved the > > libraries into the /usr/lib directory, forced the install of VariCAD > > and after an ldconfig, VariCAD starts and runs but SEGVs on > > shutdown. Everything else runs as before - no problem. > > I might suggest using LD_LIBRARY_PATH and putting all of the libraries > varicad needs into a private directory. But I am going to wait until > we see the results of the package dependencies. I suspect it will > need several specific versions of libraries. As long as libc is not > one of them you can make this work fairly easily using LD_LIBRARY_PATH > to access the libraries in your private cubby. > > Bob I catch your drift Bob. I'll give this a go. I should have thought of that... Cheers, James. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]