Re: What is the best way to get emacs23?

[rustom]

On Nov 12, 9:49 pm, Charles Sebold <cseb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12 Nov 2008, rustom wrote:
>
> > Giving up (on building emacs 23 on debian etch)
>
> > The latest error I get is
> > configure wants glib
> > glib wants gtk
> > and then apt bails out saying
>
> > libgtk2.0-dev:
> > Depends: libgtk2.0-0 (=2.8.20-7) but 2.10.13-2~bpo.1 is to be
> > installed
>
> I am running Etch, and here's what I get when I check libgtk2.0-dev and
> libgtk2.0-0:
>
> ,----
> | $ apt-cache show libgtk2.0-dev
> | Package: libgtk2.0-dev
> | .
> | . snip
> | .
> | Version: 2.8.20-7
> | .
> | . snip
> | .
> | Depends: libgtk2.0-0 (= 2.8.20-7), libglib2.0-dev (>= 2.8.5), 
> libpango1.0-dev (>= 1.10.0-2), libatk1.0-dev (>= 1.6.1-2), libcairo2-dev, 
> libx11-dev (>= 2:1.0.0-6), libxext-dev, libxinerama-dev, libxi-dev, 
> libxrandr-dev, libxcursor-dev, libxfixes-dev, pkg-config
> | .
> | . snip
> | .
> | $ apt-cache show libgtk2.0-0
> | Package: libgtk2.0-0
> | .
> | . snip
> | .
> | Version: 2.8.20-7
> | Depends: libgtk2.0-common (= 2.8.20-7), libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.12.2), libc6 (>= 
> 2.3.6-6), libcairo2 (>= 1.2.4), libfontconfig1 (>= 2.4.0), libglib2.0-0 (>= 
> 2.12.0), libjpeg62, libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.14.8), libpng12-0 (>= 1.2.13-4), 
> libtiff4, libx11-6, libxcursor1 (>> 1.1.2), libxext6, libxfixes3 (>= 
> 1:4.0.1), libxi6, libxinerama1, libxrandr2, libxrender1
> `----
>
> What else have you got in your /etc/apt/sources.conf?  I think that if
> you were just using Etch packages you'd be in good shape for this.  I
> rebuild from CVS every few days on this system, and it's Etch +
> backports and nothing else.
> --
> Charles Sebold                                    12th of November, 2008
>  GNU Emacs 22.3.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) | Gnus v5.11 | org-mode 6.12a

Yes I guess thats the problem:
I wanted to try using conkeror ( http://conkeror.org/ ) so that I
could use emacs(like) key bindings in a firefox like browser. Towards
that, conkeror wanted some 'more latest' xulrunner than came with etch
which wanted a 'more latest' libgtk (dont obviously remember the
version numbers and am not on a linux box right now).  I got this
libgtk from a non-standard repo which involved fudging the
sources.list.

Ironically I gave up on conkeror because I needed foxmarks and other
such firefox plugins and I will have have to downgrade the libgtk if I
want consistency of versions

Dependency hell its called I think :-)