MJRay wrote:
Jenny:
I can only find a deb version of the later rpm in testing so download
the
deb package
If it's in testing, a few of us can probably make you a copy for stable if you tell us what it is. Installing "the odd package" from testing without doing a dist-upgrade is probably not a good idea.
Oh dear. Too late. I hope I haven't screwed masses of stuff up now. What i'm after is an odbc driver, I found http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/conectiva/7.0/cd2/conectiva/RPMS/php4-odbc-4.0.... I thought it would be quite simple to install alien so I can use the rpm. Ha! I installed alien and eagerly went to install the rpm-packaged driver from the link above, but alien told me it couldn't deal with rpm using major number less than 3 (or something like that). What I then was trying to install was rpm 4.0.2-18 from the testing; this is what was requiring the unmet dependencies. Would a working copy not requiring bunches of weird stuff be a possibility?
Chris Glover wrote:
How about downloading the source for alien and building it yourself???
I tried this just in case, but it still requires you to install rpm - so same problem.
Richard K wrote:
Update libdb2 as well; libdb3 only conflicts with earlier versions of it. Under "testing":
.....I tried this too, but libdb3 still wouldn't install.
and of course, Ricardo wrote:
"fsck this"
well, quite!
Many thanks to all. Worst linux day I've had for a long time. :-( Jen