Re: [Swarm-Support] Swarm and current Ubuntu

[Paul Johnson]

Steve Railsback wrote:
> Is anyone successfully running Swarm on the current (9.x) version of 
> Ubuntu?
> 
> For example, if you combine Jakson Aquino's installation instructions 
> for 8.04 http://jalvesaq.googlepages.com/swarm.html with Paul Johnson's 
> patches to BlT, will it work?
> 
> (And: is Ubuntu any better than Fedora at not "updating" packages until 
> they don't work any more?)

I think my packages still work, if you have the blt that relies on
tcl/tk8.4, not the one that ships with newer ubuntu.

http://pj.freefaculty.org/Ubuntu/8.10/i386/

The hangup is the blt usage side by side with tcl/tk 8.4 and 8.5. and
you can either stick with the older blt or rebuild with the patch that
is described here:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=504388

Look for COmment #5. Applying that to blt does make it work with Swarm.
That's what's used in the Swarm RPMs I have.

They are tracking the same problem in Debian/Ubuntu, and they have a
different strategy. I did not try it yet because I do not understand it.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/blt/+bug/359857

pj

> Thanks,
> 
> Steve R.
> 


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