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Re: [GWhere-discussion] gwhere installation
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Davide Trevisan |
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Re: [GWhere-discussion] gwhere installation |
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Tue, 16 Aug 2011 18:43:45 +0200 |
Ops, it was on the repository !
...quite strange that the program homepage offers an old version,
don't say anything about installation on Ubuntu...
anyway, you answer were very good and sharp, thank you WL !
Now I'm trying to make my music and movies catalogs up.
Hi, to the next issue
Il giorno sab, 13/08/2011 alle 17.09 +0200, WL ha scritto:
> Hi Davide,
>
> On Thu, 11 Aug 2011 16:41:09 +0200, Davide Trevisan
> <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Hi everybody, this program was told me to be perfect for certain job(!).
>
> Quite usable, for my needs, anyway.
>
> > But this is the problem : trying to install it from debian package I get
> > this error : 'Errore: La dipendenza non può essere soddisfatta:
> > libglib1.2 (>= 1.2.0)'
>
> The gwhere version you try to install is too old, apparently.
>
> > but I have libglib2.0-0 installed on my Ubuntu
>
> Me too.
>
> > 10.04; isn't it an higher version ?
>
> Yes, but possibly has different usage (API), as the higher first digit "2"
> implies.
>
> > Can I some way force the
> > installation by dpkg ? (I've used gdebi 0.6)
>
> In principle yes, but it would still need a libglib1.x, so probably not
> workable.
>
> The solution here is simply to use the gwhere 0.2.3 from Ubuntu
> repository. My box tells me:
>
> $ apt-cache policy gwhere
> gwhere:
> Installed: (none)
> Candidate: 0.2.3.dfsg.1-3
> Version table:
> 0.2.3.dfsg.1-3 0
> 500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/universe Packages
>
> So gwhere 0.2.3 appears to lie in the official universe repository, which
> has to be enabled in the Preferences' "Software sources".
>
> Alternatively, you could get it from its homepage... or rather not, the
> .deb package version 1.6 there is quite old. So go with universe.
>
> Then it could be as simple as
>
> apt-get install gwhere
>
> which should fetch and install that v0.2.3.
>
> > .. I don't know, I'm not a very advanced linux user, of course.
>
> Just keep at it, and your knowledge will grow just by getting used to it.
>
> > Thank so much for your answer
>
> You're welcome.