[Gambas-user] gambas2-gb-pdf and libpoppler1 issue

[richard terry]

On Tue, 1 Apr 2008 09:10:19 am Che Guebeara wrote:
> *sigh*
>
> What I really needed...

Sorry to offend, no offence intended, I don't know how to put smileys after my 
comments, must have mis-interpeted your post.

Well, me too I go a little way back , I  used to program in assembler/FORTH 
(my favourite language ever), built a 1MB RAM disk from 8k chips piggybacked 
on top of each other, in the early 80's,  like a block of flats to instantly 
load the o/s, back in those days we used to have to move data around between 
chips on the mainboard to 'get it out of the way' of what was coming - so 
limited was the memory. Built my own popup windowing system  and once put 
debian on a DX100 including the gui.... We all share interesting experiences.

But, your experience starts a decade before mine so I'll bow to that and I'm 
essentially a computer klutz - I manage to screw up and kill anything, so 
that's why I stick to a distro that is fairly tolerant of my unpredictability  
in the use of a computer - which in essence also makes me a fabulous 
beta-tester.

Regards and once again, no offence intended.

Richard

>
> Well, let's see...
>
> Back when I STARTED using Linux... about Slackware 1.1 or was it 1.2 in
> the EARLY 90's... we compiled the kernels by hand...
>
> Enough of a story... or perhaps you would like me to tell you war
> stories about hand writing and compiling a connection layer between my
> HP9000 (HP-Ux 9.x) box and a Windows 3.x network...??
>
> What I wanted was some sort of clarification about the libpoppler1 vs.
> libpoppler2 crap and how it affects the pdf / gtk.ext part of the
> install so that I would not have to hack Gambas2 or my Update manager...
>
> Then again maybe I should just go back to how I did it on mainframes in
> the 70's???
>
> Geez... I don't need a song and dance about why your distro is better
> than my distro...
>
> Mark
>
> On Tue, 1 Apr 2008 08:15:27 +1100
>
> richard terry <rterry at ...1822...> wrote:
> > On Tue, 1 Apr 2008 03:07:30 am Che Guebeara wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I saw something about this on the ubuntu forums but no resolution.
> > >
> > > I upgraded to 2.4.1 and all went well until my upgrade manager
> > > flagged gb-pdf and gb-gtk-ext and would not upgrade them or clear.
> > > Tried everything including punting gambas2 and reinstalling it.
> > >
> > > At that point I cant reinstall Gambas2 as it says there are
> > > unresolved dependencies on gb-pdf related to libpoppler1 which is
> > > obsoleted.
> > >
> > > Is there a workaround (I searched the list here and nadas that I can
> > > see)?  As of right now I am sans-Gambas and in the middle of some
> > > new app ideas.
> >
> > Pretty easy work around. If you've been in linux for any number of
> > years you'd know there are two disto package formats that suck big
> > time.
> >
> > Firstly (as anyone knows so it goes almost without saying) rpm based
> > systems.
> >
> >  Secondly as your  eventually finding  out .deb based systems.
> >
> > Both these invariably get tangled up in dependancy messes if your
> > trying to stay on a cutting edge.
> >
> > Do yourself a favour and try ARCH linux (www.archlinux.org) and
> > you'll never look back... mind you you'll have to get your hands
> > alittle dirty, but hey, the days of  that sort of dependancy hell are
> > gone forever.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Richard
> >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Mark
> > >
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