[NBLUG/talk] gnucash on Knoppix 3.2

[Robert Hayes]

Kyle,

You're a prince.
You could be a consultant, except you work too fast and too succinctly. ;)

Thank you.

Bob

 
On Thursday 12 June 2003 08:38 am, Kyle Rankin wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 08:16:47AM -0700, Robert Hayes wrote:
> [snip]
>
> > On the 3.1 installation gnucash auto-installed and ran. On the newer
> > version it was not installed and when I try to apt-get install I get the
> > following message:
> > -------
>
> [snip]
>
> > Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
> >   gnucash: Depends: libdb3 (>= 3.2.9-18) but 3.2.9-17 is to be installed
> >            Depends: libgwrapguile1 (>= 1.3.4-5) but 1.1.11-5 is to be
> > installed
> > E: Sorry, broken packages
> > --------
> > I don't understand the subtleties of apt well enought to coerce an
> > install of gnucash. Can anyone shed any light on this or direct me?
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Also, if it helps, here is my apt.conf file:
> > ---
> > APT::Default-Release "testing";
> > APT::Cache-Limit 10000000;
> > Apt::Get::Purge;
> > ---
> > Robert
>
> ...
>
> This last part here is the key.  Basically Knoppix defaults to using
> testing packages, but in some cases it uses unstable packages.  It sets
> testing as the default release so when you install an unstable package it
> has, it grabs the unstable package, but sometimes the dependencies are
> grabbed from testing instead (and they aren't new enough).  To remedy this,
> do the following:
>
> apt-get -t unstable install gnucash
>
>
> This will tell apt to pull it all from the unstable release (basically "Hey
> ignore that 'APT::Default-Release "testing";' thing for now.")