[wellylug] OpenOffice 1.1.1

Jethro Carr dodocaptain at paradise.net.nz
Fri Jun 11 19:06:13 NZST 2004


On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 18:18, JP wrote:
>  --- Jethro Carr wrote: 
> 
> > does anyone know how to compile apt-get & dpkg for a
> > LFS system?
> > 
> > I've checked out the hints online, but they don't
> > appear to work.
> > 
> 
> If you read the hint carefully, you'll have noticed
> that you need to use quite an old version; the latest
> version will NOT work or even compile.
> 
> If you've used the old version and it still isn't
> working, it might be that that version has old
> dependencies too.  If that is the case, you're in for
> a long haul to track them down and compile them for
> the system -- use 'ldd apt' on an existing Debian
> system to get the versions of the libraries which work
> there.
> 
> Finally, note that you will only ever have a hacked
> apt install anyway, since it really wants your base
> install (which you have done already, without a
> package manager) to be in packages too, and in the
> installed package information database.  Without that,
> the dependencies are all a bit shonky.

yeah, I did note the use of old versions.

tried that, didn't work.


Must be the dependancys... damm. Maybe I'll try emerge.


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