[PD] missing dependencies for pd-extended on ubuntu 8.10
Roman Haefeli
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Mon Dec 1 18:59:12 CET 2008
On Mon, 2008-12-01 at 17:54 +0000, Ilias Anagnostopoulos wrote:
> Hello Roman,
>
> I assume you tried downloading the package through HTTP.
exactly.
> There is an
> info link next to the download, md5 and APT links on the download page,
> that links here: http://pd.ianagnostopoulos.postgrad.shef.ac.uk/notes.txt
>
> This describes the dependencies, and gives you another link,
> http://pd.ianagnostopoulos.postgrad.shef.ac.uk/pd-deps.tar
> which contains a tar archive with the three packages of the dependencies.
> If you try getting it through the OtherSide APT, the dependencies are
> there and thus automatically configured.
i see. cool work you did!
> These three packages have been removed from the official Ubuntu (and I
> think also Debian) repositories since no package there depended on them.
> My understanding is that they are NOT replaced by the ones you
> mentioned. I tried simply changing the dependencies to the newer
> versions and it installed, but came up with many errors when launching PD.
i see..
> GEM seems to need the specific versions it depends on. I think that
> since there is no "serious" reason not to use these libraries, it
> doesn't make sense doing anything to the source code to make it
> compatible with the newer versions. If we simply provide these extra
> packages with the PD package, by hosting them on the same places, it
> will be fine. Since nothing else has anything to do with them, they
> won't break anything.
right..
thanks for your detailed answer and the work you put it.
roman
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