tickvue and Ubuntu 16.04

[Jay Ridgley]

On 10/06/2016 04:57 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> Hi,
>
> http://packages.ubuntu.com/ doesn't find tickvue by official
> repositories.
>
> Run
>
> dpkg -I /var/cache/apt/archives/package_name.deb
>
> to get a list of the libraries that are required. However, the
> information ">=" not necessarily means that each lib ">" necessarily
> will work. Chances are good that if it requires e.g. libfoo (>= 1.0)
> and Ubuntu 16.04 should provide libfoo (>= 1.5), that it will still
> work, but it unlikely would be still usable, assuming the so
> called "soname" changed, IOW not the dot release, but the major release,
> so if Ubuntu 16.04 should provide libfoo (>= 2.0), it unlikly would run.
>
> You could backup such a lib
>
> libfoo.so -> libfoo.so.1.0.0
> libfoo.so.1 -> libfoo.so.1.0.0
> libfoo.so.1.0.0
>
> Don't backup and restore "libfoo.so", this is only needed to build and
> should be used from the new package. But backup and restore libfoo.so.1
> and libfoo.so.1.0.0. You need to run
>
>   sudo ldconfig
>
> after restoring the lib and link.
>
> You could see, if this should be required by taking a look at the
> version of the libs at http://packages.ubuntu.com/ .
>
> If you don't have the package available in /var/cache/apt/archives/ or
> any other pass, the info provided by
>
> apt-cache showpkg pluma | grep -A1 Dependencies:
>
> does the job, too. The missing ">=" are not that important. Again,
> usually different dot release don't break a package, but if the major
> release changed you unlikely could contiue using the package, resp. you
> need to copy the old libraries.
>
> There's still a handicap for the package management, since the package
> providing tickvue does confuse the package management, assuming that
> Ubuntu 16.04 shouldn't provide the required dependencies.
>
> Copy the files of the package, listed by
>
> dpkg -L
>
> then remove the package and restore the files on Ubuntu 16.04, don't
> try to reinstall the package.
>
> Regards,
> Ralf
>
>
>
Thanks Ralf, I will try to do that. I downloaded the source from Source 
Forge thinking that I might try to build it myself. However, there is no 
Makefile and no makeconfig (I think that is right). It has been years 
(retired from S/W Development in 2002) since I have done any work with 
software. So currently I have abandoned  that...

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