[Haskell-cafe] trying to install gutsy's libghc6-mtl-dev from source on feisty

[Anatoly Yakovenko]

that makes no difference, it just builds the package without actually
switching to root, otherwise you are doing unnecessary work with extra
privileges.

On 8/31/07, Thomas Hartman <thomas.hartman at db.com> wrote:
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> did you have a look at the pupeno blog link? He suggests using fakeroot
> apt-get source build.
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> Not sure why the fakeroot, but perhaps it makes a difference.
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> thomas.
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>  *"Anatoly Yakovenko" <aeyakovenko at gmail.com>*
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> 08/31/2007 01:56 PM
>   To
> Thomas Hartman/ext/dbcom at DBAmericas  cc
> haskell-cafe at haskell.org  Subject
> Re: [Haskell-cafe] trying to install gutsy's libghc6-mtl-dev from source
> on feisty
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> yea, i built the deb from gutsy's deb-src repository using apt-get source
> --build.  i am trying to figure out why that deb that i build doesn't work
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> On 8/31/07, *Thomas Hartman* <*thomas.hartman at db.com*<thomas.hartman at db.com>>
> wrote:
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> you may want to generate the .deb rather than take the deb that was
> packaged for gutsy.
> *
> **http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2007-April/024137.html *<http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2007-April/024137.html>
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> pupeno's guide to do this:
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> **http://pupeno.com/2006/12/17/unstable-packages-on-ubuntu/ *<http://pupeno.com/2006/12/17/unstable-packages-on-ubuntu/>
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>   *"Anatoly Yakovenko" <**aeyakovenko at gmail.com* <aeyakovenko at gmail.com>*>
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> 08/31/2007 01:42 PM
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>   To
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>   Subject
> [Haskell-cafe] trying to install gutsy's libghc6-mtl-dev from
>  source on feisty
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> i have ghc6_6.6.1-2ubuntu2_i386.deb and
> ghc6-prof_6.6.1-2ubuntu2_i386.deb installed, but i cant seem to get
> mtl to install, can someone tell me what this output means?   i just
> switched to a debian based system from gentoo, so i dont grok dpkg
> yet:
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> aeyakovenko at snowcrash:~$ sudo dpkg -i libghc6-mtl-dev_1.0.1-2_i386.deb
> (Reading database ... 129709 files and directories currently installed.)
> Preparing to replace libghc6-mtl-dev 1.0-3 (using
> libghc6-mtl-dev_1.0.1-2_i386.deb) ...
> ghc-pkg: cannot find package mtl-1.0
> dpkg: warning - old pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
> dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ...
> ghc-pkg: cannot find package mtl-1.0
> dpkg: error processing libghc6-mtl-dev_1.0.1-2_i386.deb (--install):
> subprocess new pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
> Reading package info from stdin ... done.
> ghc-pkg: dependency base-2.0 doesn't exist (use --force to override)
> dpkg: error while cleaning up:
> subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> libghc6-mtl-dev_1.0.1-2_i386.deb
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