Re: [GWhere-discussion] gwhere installation

[Davide Trevisan]

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.