Cernlib

[mirtux]

Hi everybody,
i need to install the libkernlib library. I tried to search it with synaptic but it's telling me:

libkernlib1:
Depends: cernlib-base but it is not installable
In fact the package is not present in the repositories i have.
Does anybody of you has this problem or he knows how to solve it?

Regards,
MC

[mendicant]

It might be available in a multiverse, somewhere. I thought it was GPL, so I'm not sure why it isn't in universe. You can also try pulling it from hoary. Just put hoary in your sources.list, do:
% aptitude update
% aptitude install libkernlib1 #(or maybe libkernlib1-dev)

then revert your sources.list to what it was originally. This, of course, is probably an unsupported operation, but it ought to work--you would then be running a mixture of warty and hoary packages, and so you might have to be careful about security notices regarding the hoary packages.

[mirtux]

Hi mendicant,
thanks for the reply, but the problem is that libkernlib requires cernlib-base which is not available. libkernlib and libkernlib-dev are present but not installable because of this problem.

Regards,
MC

[mendicant]

But it _is_ available--in hoary universe. So you need to change from warty to hoary, and add universe in your apt sources.list, do an update, then just do:
% aptitude update
% aptitude install libkernlib1 #(or maybe libkernlib1-dev)

This will pull in the cernlib-base dependency from hoary universe (plus possibly other dependencies from hoary). You then change your sources.list back to what it was, and you should have what you want.

[mirtux]

Oh....
sorry for my reply, i didn't understand that the "universe" was from hoary. I'll have a look and i'll tell you how it goes.

Thanks again,
MC