I'd like to install scribus 1.1.7 on woody, and have followed the directions concerning sources.list and pinning that are found on the scribus web site. When I run apt-get install scribus, I (naturally) get a long list of unsatisfied dependencies. I have an elementary question on the interpretation of this list..
For example, scribus: Depends: libart-2.0-2 (>= 2.3.16) but 2.3.8-1 is to be installed I first check to see what I have: $ ldconfig -p | grep libart libart_lgpl.so.2 (libc6) => /usr/lilb/libart_lgpl.so.2 So, I don't have libart and need to install it. In the statement above, I gather it says that scribus 1.1.7 needs at least version 2.3.16, and the highest version available for installation is 2.3.8-1. What is meant by, "is to be installed"? Did it fail simply because it depended on another package that is not installed? I run $ apt-show-versions -a -p libart Not installed No stable version No testing version No unstable version And infer there's no .deb packages available to me, so I must compile 2.3.8-1 from source. What is the best way of locating that source? I come across this information merely by accident: Version: 2.3.16-0+woody1 Distribution: unstable Why didn't apt-show-version report it? This line: Depends: libfontconfig1 (>= 2.2.1) but it is not going to be installed I don't understand why the first example says it is to be installed, but the second says it is not going to be installed. Haines Brown
