Hi all,

As you may know, I've been trying to get LiveSupport to install under
Ubuntu Breezy, but have come up with some frustrating errors when I try to
install from the Debian packages related to dependencies.

The problem is that Ubuntu, for whatever reason, used a different version
of libboost-date-time that included a different version number in its file
name.

At some point in the relatively near future, we should have a
reorganization of the LiveSupport Debian packages, and possibly even
Ubuntu-specific packages. In the meantime, you can try this method. It
looks kind of scary, but isn't.

What you have to do is edit the livesupport-libs Debian package's control
file, changing the dependency requirement from libboost-date-time1.32.0 to
libboost-date-time1.33.0. You can do so this way in your livesupport .deb
downloads directory:

mv livesupport-libs_1.0.2-1_i386.deb
livesupport-libs_1.0.2-1_i386.deb.orig
mkdir ls.tmp
dpkg-deb --extract livesupport-libs_1.0.2-1_i386.deb.orig ls.tmp
dpkg-deb --control livesupport-libs_1.0.2-1_i386.deb.orig ls.tmp/DEBIAN
# Now use your favorite editor to edit the Depends line as above:
gedit ls.tmp/DEBIAN/control
dpkg --build ls.tmp
mv ls.tmp.deb livesupport-libs_1.0.2-1_i386.deb

Luckily, inside the control file, the dependency for libboost-date-time is
the last one, so it's pretty easy to spot. Change the required version to
the one Ubuntu Breezy ships with (libboost-date-time1.33.0), and you
should be able to install livesupport-libs OK after that.

Please feel free to correct anything you find wrong along the way with
this; if it checks out I'll add it to the install documentation.


doug





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