Re: [GWhere-discussion] gwhere installation

[WL]

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.
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regards,
-- Wolf Lichtenberger