Re: Hack on one of the coreutils programs

[Pádraig Brady]

On 06/06/15 19:10, Tomas Nordin wrote:
> I am trying to solve the dependencies yield from the ./bootstrap command
> and have problems with gettext. I am trying to get help from the
> debian-user list but wanted to double-check here if you understand this.
> 
> I have installed via wheezy-backports the version 0.19.3-2~bpo70, but
> running gettext is not running the new version, it runs the previously
> installed 0.18.1. My package manager system thinks that 0.19.3-2~bpo70
> is installed but gettext seem to disagree.
> 
> Would you have any idea what is going on with that?

Ensure you don't have an older version installed outside the packaging system
in /usr/local or where ever.
This might be informative: dpkg -S $(which gettext)
Questions like this are not directly related to coreutils BTW.

thanks,
Pádraig.