[64studio-devel] Upgrades: GIMP & GCC

[Free Ekanayaka]

Hi Tim,

|--==> tim hall writes:

  th> Free Ekanayaka wrote:
  >>|--==> tim hall writes:
  >>
  th> My concern is that some of the Desktop apps with multimedia
  >>functions   th> are becoming out-of-date. I can't get support from
  >>lastfm, because I'm 
  >>
  >>I just discovered:
  >>http://packages.debian.org/etch-backports/lastfm
  >>
  >>Just follow the instructions here to get it
  >>
  >>http://backports.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=instructions

  th> Great! Installed and testing.
  th> It works perfectly. :)

  th> flash-plugin-nonfree is not so happy ...

  th> Unpacking replacement flashplugin-nonfree ...
  th> dpkg: warning - unable to delete old directory
  th> /var/cache/flashplugin-nonfree': Directory not empty

What about:

rm -Rf /var/cache/flashplugin-nonfree
dpkg --purge --force-all flashplugin-nonfree
apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree

(as root)

?

  th> Upgrading gimp causes:
  th> (gimp-helpbrowser,) gnome-core, libeel2-2.18, metacity, nautilus,
  th> openoffice.org and python-uno to be removed on my system. I suspect it
  th> has something to do with libgtk2.0-0. That's as far as I've got.

Please would you paste here the output of

apt-cache policy

?

  th> Oh well, I'm happy with my upgraded lastfm for now.

:)

Free