[OLSR-users] olsrd Debain package on sarge

[Bernd Petrovitsch]

We have here several hosts with Debian sarge and want upgrade to
olsrd-0.4.10.
Apparently installing it doesn't work.
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268#apt-get install olsrd=0.4.10-1
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  olsrd: Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.5-1) but 2.3.2.ds1-22 is to be installed
E: Broken packages
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So I wanted to simply rebuild it:
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404#apt-get source --compile olsrd
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Need to get 646kB of source archives.
Get:1 http://www.skyhub.de unstable/main olsrd 0.4.10-1 (dsc) [320B]
Get:2 http://www.skyhub.de unstable/main olsrd 0.4.10-1 (tar) [646kB]
Fetched 646kB in 0s (892kB/s)
dpkg-source: extracting olsrd in olsrd-0.4.10
dpkg-buildpackage: source package is olsrd
dpkg-buildpackage: source version is 0.4.10-1
dpkg-buildpackage: source maintainer is Frank Becker <(spam-protected)>
dpkg-buildpackage: host architecture is i386
dpkg-checkbuilddeps: Unmet build dependencies: libgtk2.0-dev (>= 2.8.11) openssl (>= 0.9.8)
dpkg-buildpackage: Build dependencies/conflicts unsatisfied; aborting.
dpkg-buildpackage: (Use -d flag to override.)
Build command 'cd olsrd-0.4.10 && dpkg-buildpackage -b -uc' failed.
E: Child process failed
405#dpkg -l openssl libgtk2.0-dev
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                Version             Description
+++-===================-===================-======================================================
ii  openssl             0.9.7e-3sarge1      Secure Socket Layer (SSL) binary and related cryptogra
ii  libgtk2.0-dev       2.6.4-3.1           Development files for the GTK+ library
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Hmm, are these new versions are absolutely necessary or can one safely
change it to sarge-current ones?

	Bernd
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