N00b Installing DeVeDe on Mepis

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Matthew Lake

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Nov 22, 2009, 1:11:56 AM11/22/09
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Hi,

I am completely new to Linux and Mepis and I am trying install DeVeDe
but I keep gettin an error from KPackage that says:

<wnloads/devede_3.14.0-0~rastersoft1_all(3).deb' ;echo RESULT=$?
Selecting previously deselected package devede.
(Reading database ... 74060 files and directories currently
installed.)
Unpacking devede (from .../devede_3.14.0-0~rastersoft1_all(3).deb) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of devede:
devede depends on libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.16.0); however:
Version of libgtk2.0-0 on system is 2.12.12-1~lenny1.
devede depends on mencoder; however:
Package mencoder is not installed.
dpkg: error processing devede (--install):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
devede
RESULT=1


I tried updating libgtk2.0-0 but konquer says that thats the most
recent version but the DeVeDe requires 2.16 or greater. Also mencoder
seems to be installed on my machine, too.

I am honestly not entirely sure what any of this means and I would
appreciate any guidance and direction before I get discouraged and go
back to windows lol. I don't think anyone out there would like to see
that happen. THanks all in advance!

Matt

Sergio

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Nov 22, 2009, 6:12:50 PM11/22/09
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Matthew Lake escribi�:
> Hi,

Hi:

> I am completely new to Linux and Mepis and I am trying install DeVeDe
> but I keep gettin an error from KPackage that says:

> Unpacking devede (from .../devede_3.14.0-0~rastersoft1_all(3).deb) ...
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of devede:
> devede depends on libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.16.0); however:
> Version of libgtk2.0-0 on system is 2.12.12-1~lenny1.

Well, it seems that your distro is using an old version of GTK. Your
Mepis distro is based in Debian stable, which still uses GTK 2.12.

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Nos leemos
RASTER (Linux user #228804)
ras...@rastersoft.com http://www.rastersoft.com

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