Re: [Gramps-users] GRAMPS and Debian 3.0

[Alex R. <sh...@al...>]

Bret,

I have to disappoint you: gramps does not and will not run on woody,=20
unless you tweak your woody so much that it does not make sense to call=20
it "stable" anymore :-) The reason is that the gnome libraries on woody=20
are GNOME1, and gramps (everything past 0.8.1) requires GNOME2. The way=20
debian makes its releases, no new packages will ever be uploaded to=20
stable except for the security fixes.=20

Gramps does run on testing (sarge) and unstable (sid). Sarge is going to=20
be released sometime soon, and stability-wise it is much closer to=20
stable than unstable.

I personally run unstable since 2000 and I can easily count all the=20
breakages I've had in the past (about 4-5). I would recommend trying=20
unstable unless you're running an absolutely mission-critical machine=20
and cannot afford a tiniest problem ever.

If unstable is not an option for you, there's a good chance that sarge=20
will become stable in a couple of months. There's an even greater chance=20
(almost certain) that it will become stable in six months.

If, however, you were referring to gramps 0.8.1 then it will happily run=20
on woody. But the development progressed a lot since then, so not being=20
able to run a recent version seems quite a drawback to me.

Hope it helps.=20
Please feel free to ask further questions,
Alex

On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 11:38:22AM +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
> I am wondering whether anyone has had any problems running GRAMPS on=20
> Debian Linux 3.0.
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> I am currently running (an earlier version, I believe, of) GRAMPS on=20
> Red Hat Linux 7.3, and I have found this last week, from the Red Hat=20
> site, that Red Hat Linux disappears in six months, so I am considering=20
> moving to Debian stable, the latest version of which, I believe, is 3.0=
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> (named woody, I think).
>=20
> I understand that Fedora Linux will take the place of Red Hat Linux, but=
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> there appears to be a reduction in the number of applicable CD's,=20
> implying that Fedora Linux will lack much of what is contained in Red=20
> Hat Linux.
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> I am not trying to start any "distro war" on this list; I am merely=20
> trying to find whether there are any problems installing, setting up,=20
> and running, the latest version of GRAMPS on Debian Linux 3.0, and=20
> giving my reasons.

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