Hi Ben! hmmm .... i did not see any dependency on lua: michael:~ # rpm -q --requires synaptic apt >= 0.5.4 gtk2 libglade2 libstdc++ ld-linux.so.2 libX11.so.6 libXext.so.6 libXft.so.2 libXi.so.6 libXrandr.so.2 libXrender.so.1 libapt-pkg-libc6.3-5.so.0 libatk-1.0.so.0 libbz2.so.1 libc.so.6 libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.0) libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1) libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1.3) libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.2) libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.2.3) libdb.so.2 libdl.so.2 libexpat.so.0 libfontconfig.so.1 libfreetype.so.6 libgcc_s.so.1 libgcc_s.so.1(GCC_3.0) libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0 libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0 libglade-2.0.so.0 libglib-2.0.so.0 libgmodule-2.0.so.0 libgobject-2.0.so.0 libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 libm.so.6 libpango-1.0.so.0 libpangox-1.0.so.0 libpangoxft-1.0.so.0 libpopt.so.0 libpthread.so.0 libpthread.so.0(GLIBC_2.0) libpthread.so.0(GLIBC_2.1) librpm.so.0 libstdc++.so.5 libstdc++.so.5(CXXABI_1.2) libstdc++.so.5(GLIBCPP_3.2) libstdc++.so.5(GLIBCPP_3.2.2) libxml2.so.2 libz.so.1 -- me On Tue, 17 Jun 2003, Ben Rosenberg wrote:
It's in the extra's directory but because it depends on a package of lua ..it won't let you install it because there isn't a lua package available via apt. Goofy I know. So I downloaded the following packages by hand out of the RPMS.extra directory.
apt-0.5.5cnc6-rb2.i386.rpm apt-devel-0.5.5cnc6-rb2.i386.rpm apt-libs-0.5.5cnc6-rb2.i386.rpm apt-server-0.5.5cnc6-rb2.i386.rpm synaptic-0.36.1-rb1.i386.rpm
And from this site "http://www.mupsych.org/~rrt/Lua" I downloaded "lua-5.0-1static.i386.rpm" by clicking on the link marked "Lua 5.0 x86 binary: RPM 526kb"
After installing the above rpm's..everything works quite nicely. :)