Hi
On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 02:37:47PM +1200, Shea Martin wrote:
>
> I just downloaded *.deb's for abiword and gnumeric. I went to dpkg -i
> them, but I recieved dependancy errors. Shouldn't dpkg just download and
> install the dependacies? Or is that only apt-get?
Only apt-get or dselect will grab dependencies.
> Anyway I notice that abiword (0.7.12) needs glibc 2.2. Do I have to
> upgrade to woody to get 2.2? Anyone know of source for potato glibc 2.2?
> or is this a bad idea?
That depends on which distribution you downloaded the debs from. For
example if you grab them out of Testing then in all likelyhood the
dependencies will be of the higher version numbers needed.
Matt
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