On Wed, 9 Nov 2016, Lists wrote: > I am running Xubuntu 16.04. with fish version 2.3.1 installed. On the > fish web site I have now found the .deb fish file for Xenial AMD 64. I > downloaded that and tried to install it, using gDebi. I got an > unsatisfied dependency message that the new version of fish common was > missing. > > So I downloaded that file, again as a .deb, and tried to install it. Now > I am told that the 2.4.1 version of fish needs to be installed. So I am > going round in a circle. To install the new version I am told that I > need to have fish common installed first, But to install fish common I > need to have the new version of fish installed. Can someone tell me, > please, how to get out of this? > > Thanks, > > Neil
Hi Neil, The short answer is that you should run: sudo apt-get -f install # Should remove fish and/or fish-common sudo dpkg -i fish_2.4.0-1_amd64.deb fish-common_2.4.0-1_all.deb The longer answer is that generally I would advise against downloading .deb files and installing them directly. The APT package management system includes a bunch of useful features, one of which is getting this stuff right. On Xubuntu, it's as simple as: sudo apt-add-repository ppa:fish-shell/release-2 sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install fish Hope that gets you fishing! David Adam zanc...@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Developer Access Program for Intel Xeon Phi Processors Access to Intel Xeon Phi processor-based developer platforms. With one year of Intel Parallel Studio XE. Training and support from Colfax. Order your platform today. http://sdm.link/xeonphi _______________________________________________ Fish-users mailing list Fish-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fish-users
