Re: serious dependency problems

2002-01-20 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 11:25:07AM -0500, sam rosenfeld wrote: > On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 09:52:10PM -0600, Colin Watson wrote: > > You'll have to be more specific. It's possible that you only have > > runtime versions of libraries involved, while you need development > > (-dev) versions in order to

Re: serious dependency problems

2002-01-20 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 20 January 2002 4:25 pm, sam rosenfeld wrote: > I confess that I know next to nothing about the distinction between runtime > and development versions of the libraries. libx contains the library binary that a binary application that uses

Re: serious dependency problems

2002-01-20 Thread sam rosenfeld
On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 09:52:10PM -0600, Colin Watson wrote: > On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 02:40:06PM -0500, sam rosenfeld wrote: > > I have tried unsuccessfully to install many packages and programs -- > > from math programs to pine, sawfish and libc6.2. In most cases the > > problem is one in whic

Re: serious dependency problems

2002-01-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 02:40:06PM -0500, sam rosenfeld wrote: > I have tried unsuccessfully to install many packages and programs -- > from math programs to pine, sawfish and libc6.2. In most cases the > problem is one in which the 'make' closes with errors that list > dependencies it could not

Re: serious dependency problems

2002-01-19 Thread Joachim Fahnenmueller
Give examples: What did you try to install? Debian package (apt-get) or source (make)? What error message did you get? -- Joachim Fahnenmüller Lehrer für Mathematik und Physik Herder-Gymnasium Kattowitzer Straße 52 51065 Köln

Re: serious dependency problems

2002-01-18 Thread sam rosenfeld
On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 01:50:30PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Fri, 18 Jan 2002 14:40:06 -0500 sam rosenfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have tried unsuccessfully to install many packages and programs -- from > > math > > programs to pine, sawfish and libc6.2. In most cases the problem

Re: serious dependency problems

2002-01-18 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 18 Jan 2002 14:40:06 -0500 sam rosenfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have tried unsuccessfully to install many packages and programs -- from > math > programs to pine, sawfish and libc6.2. In most cases the problem is one in > which the 'make' closes with errors that list dependencie

serious dependency problems

2002-01-18 Thread sam rosenfeld
I have tried unsuccessfully to install many packages and programs -- from math programs to pine, sawfish and libc6.2. In most cases the problem is one in which the 'make' closes with errors that list dependencies it could not find. Occasionally, and perhaps unrelated, the error message reads s