On Wed, 1 May 2002, William Traver wrote: > Help I seem to be on the bleeding edge in stable (and it hurts) and need > to backtrack a little bit. > > > Preparing to replace gnome-core 1.4.0.4-12 (using .../gnome- > core_1.4.0.6-2_darwin-powerpc.deb) ... > Unpacking replacement gnome-core ... > Setting up gnome-core (1.4.0.6-2) ... > > [tested and panels did not work but menu displays fine] > > [darwin:~] williamt% sudo apt-get install gnome-core=1.4.0.4-12 > Password: > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > E: Version '1.4.0.4-12' for 'gnome-core' was not found > [this worked last week but I can't seem to get it to work now] > That's because this version has been discontinued as obsolete (for fink). If you still have a .deb file on your system for it you can install it directly using dpkg.
> > My question is how do I get the old one to reinstall as the new one will > NOT work correctly for me? (I have rebuilt glib, gtk+, imlib, orbit, > audiofile, esound, libxml, gnome-libs, gdk-pixbuf, libghttp, libglade, > libgtop, gnome-print, control-center, and gnome-core in that order) What verion of gdk-pixbuf( & -bin -shlibs etc.) do you have now? There have been quite a few updates to it, because of missing GNOME icons. > > > Also nethack 3.4.0-1 has lost the graphics so I want to use the older > version (how do I find the version #) of it also. > > *****I can't find the docs containing info on how to do this.***** > > [darwin:~] williamt% fink --version > Package manager version: 0.9.11 > Distribution version: 0.4.0.cvs > [darwin:~] williamt% apt-get --version > apt 0.5.4 for darwin powerpc compiled on Nov 3 2001 04:53:01 > Supported Modules: > *Ver: Standard .deb > *Pkg: Debian dpkg interface (Priority 20) > S.L: 'deb' Standard Debian binary tree > S.L: 'deb-src' Standard Debian source tree > Idx: Debian Source Index > Idx: Debian Package Index > Idx: Debian dpkg status file > > Willy > Murphy was definitely an optimist. > > -- Alexander K. Hansen Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University Levitated Dipole Experiment MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center, 175 Albany Street, NW17-219 Cambridge, MA 02139-4213 Phone: 617-252-1818 Fax: 208-988-4057
