On Tue, 2008-01-01 at 16:49 +0000, James Freer wrote:
in terminal type $alien -c vym-1.10.0-18.i586.rpm # -c tells it to remove any installation or removal scripts [Should then have a .deb package?]
$sudo dpkg vym-1.10.0-18.i586.deb
[it can't be that easy - i wanted to check before i mess up somehow! What about other dependencies]
That might work, or you might be better off looking around the Ubuntu Hardy Repository for a newer version (1.08 in gutsy as you suspected). Alien should have resolved the dependencies so if there are any that are unmet it should get picked up when you try and install it.
What I would try first is "sudo dpkg --no-act -i vym-1.10.0-18.i586.deb" which will dry run the installation without actually changing anything..if that looks like it is going to work you should be safe.
If that fails because it is built against a newer library or something then build it from the tar.bz2 and install as per the included instructions.
PS. Gutsy isn't the troubled release that some people on the forums would have you believe..this basically happens every time there is a new release..a small vocal minority shout about how the upgrade broke on their machine, usually without any specifics and usually because of something they either did or failed to do. What you don't get so much of is reports from the other 90% of people for whom the upgrade went perfectly, so looking at the forums it is easy to get trapped by a bias towards only reporting failure.
Also if you intend to upgrade your box to the next release then the supported path is via upgrading to Gutsy first anyway as Hardy will most likely only support upgrades from Gutsy and Dapper LTS