almost got gnome-orca installed

almost got gnome-orca installed

[Jude DaShiell]

Yesterday turns out to have been a bad time to try to install gnome-orca. 
The show stopper turned out to be an upgrade to libc6 that couldn't erase 
the previous version of libc6 and install itself correctly.  That of 
course stopped locales from being upgraded and those two together blocked 
the rest of the upgrade to unstable from stable.  Will try on another day 
and see if I get lucky then.  gnopernicus is what would be installed on 
debian stable, but not knowing for sure if the installation had been good 
that gnopernicus would work I tried for unstable and gnome-orca without 
success.  For now the dsl modem is having issues and may or may not be 
able to be straightened out later this week.  So I'm using dial up and dos 
to send this email.  I'll check the debian disk and see if it has any 
console modem programs later.  An interesting find I made and it's on the 
debian distribution speakup disk though is localepurge.  This package 
allows you to select which locales you want protected and to remain on 
your system.  When next you update your system, and each time you update 
your system after that all unprotected locales get deleted.  Can be 
helpful for those a little tight on disk space.

Re: almost got gnome-orca installed

[Gaijin]

On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 07:17:03PM -0600, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> Yesterday turns out to have been a bad time to try to install gnome-orca. 
> The show stopper turned out to be an upgrade to libc6 that couldn't erase 
> the previous version of libc6 and install itself correctly.  That of 
> course stopped locales from being upgraded and those two together blocked 
> the rest of the upgrade to unstable from stable.  Will try on another day 
:End-Quote:

	Did you use 'aptitude full-upgrade', or 'apt-get dist-upgrade'?
	I had to run through about 24 'aptitude safe-upgrade' runs to
put everything back in working order, as there is a particular order in
which everything must be reassembled.  apt-get just couldn't handle the
job. HTH,

			Michael
			

Re: almost got gnome-orca installed

[Christopher Moore]

On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 10:12:25PM -0800, Gaijin wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 07:17:03PM -0600, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> > Yesterday turns out to have been a bad time to try to install gnome-orca. 
> > The show stopper turned out to be an upgrade to libc6 that couldn't erase 
> > the previous version of libc6 and install itself correctly.  That of 
> > course stopped locales from being upgraded and those two together blocked 
> > the rest of the upgrade to unstable from stable.  Will try on another day 
> :End-Quote:
> 
> 	Did you use 'aptitude full-upgrade', or 'apt-get dist-upgrade'?
I'm running Ubuntu, and aptitude does not have a 'full-upgrade' option.  
The actions are 'upgrade' or 'dist-upgrade'.
> 	I had to run through about 24 'aptitude safe-upgrade' runs to
> put everything back in working order, as there is a particular order in
> which everything must be reassembled.  apt-get just couldn't handle the
> job. HTH,
> 
> 			Michael
> 			
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Re: almost got gnome-orca installed

[Gaijin]

On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 09:21:51AM -0500, Christopher Moore wrote:
> I'm running Ubuntu, and aptitude does not have a 'full-upgrade' option.  
:End-Quote:

	Oh.  I'm running Debian Lenny, since at the time, it was the
only way I knew to install the gnome-orca package.  So many packages, so
little time to read docs that were written back in the Debian Woody era.
<grins>  I've pretty-much chucked apt-get out the window.  It's nowhere
near as intelligent as aptitude, and I want the recommended packages to
be installed along with the things I want, just to be on the safe side.
Now if I can just figure out how to get spamassassin to work with
sendmail/procmail/mutt...

			Michael

re: almost got gnome-orca installed

[Jude DaShiell]

I used aptitude dist-upgrade.