2001-Dec-06

Did a "apt-get dist-upgrade" to update from stable to testing. had a few problems, so I just did "apt-get -f install" and "apt-get upgrade" a few times.

My next goal is to install gramps (from source). It needs a few python tools.

When doing an "apt-get install libgnome-dev", I received:

debconf: delaying package configuration, since apt-utils is not installed

So I aborted it, and did "apt-get install apt-utils". Then installed python-xml, python-gtk, python-gnome (which installed several other packages, such as lapack -- a comprehensive set of linear algebra routines), python-glade Then installed python-dev -- it removed python-gnome, python-glade, python-gtk and other packages. Then it reported "The python interpreter can't find the SAX/XML bindings" again! So this time I installed python2-xml instead which ended up installing some other packages. But still had same missing "SAX/XML bindings". So then I installed "python2.1-xmlbase". And then added "python-base" again because it is needed by pyhton-gtk and python-dev was removed! Then I had to install python-xml again (because of the SAX/XML)! Then installed python-gnome again. And then python-glade again.

Now I am back where I started from fifteen minutes ago: "checking for headers required to compile python extensions... configure: error: not found". I added some debugging to the script. It is looking for /usr/include/python1.5/Python.h -- which doesn't exist. So I installed python1.5-dev.

Finally, the ./configure for gramps-0.6.2 worked! And I installed it.