Hi all,

I just installed "gdesklets" for my Debian/Sarge (even still have some problem from start up).

I just discovered that, the version obtained from "apt-get" is "0.33", but when I go the Debian

Package web page, it shows that the current version is "0.35" ?????

I think that the "0.33" is a "stable" version, but "0.35" might be "unstable" ..

Is it possible to install the "0.35" version of gdesklets using "apt-get" ??

thanks in advance all,

Alez

I downloaded the 0.35.2 package from the debian website and simply installed it using or whatever the package was actually called. Works fine, as some of the new plugins such as weather, calendar + countdown scripts need a more recent version of gdesklets to work.

What happens when you do the following?
Which branch (stable/testing/unstable) do you use? Check that 0.35 is in one you use, and/or edit /etc/apt/sources.list; you may want to set your /etc/apt/preferences to impose some order between stable, testing and unstable.

hth --Jonas

Thank you guys for your reply,

-- fouldsy: I tried as you suggested, but I got the following errors which I don't know how to upgrade the following libraries.
I checked in Synaptic, it says that those libraries are already up to date:

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Selecting previously deselected package gdesklets.
(Reading database ... 73163 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking gdesklets (from gdesklets_0.35.2-1_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of gdesklets:
gdesklets depends on libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.9.0); however:
Version of libatk1.0-0 on system is 1.8.0-4.
gdesklets depends on libgconf2-4 (>= 2.9); however:
Version of libgconf2-4 on system is 2.8.1-6.
gdesklets depends on libgnomevfs2-0 (>= 2.10.0-0); however:
Version of libgnomevfs2-0 on system is 2.8.4-4.
gdesklets depends on libgpg-error0 (>= 1.1); however:
Version of libgpg-error0 on system is 1.0-1.
gdesklets depends on libgtop2-5 (>= 2.9.4); however:
Package libgtop2-5 is not installed.
gdesklets depends on librsvg2-2 (>= 2.9.5); however:
Version of librsvg2-2 on system is 2.8.1-3.
gdesklets depends on libtasn1-2 (>= 0.2.13); however:
Version of libtasn1-2 on system is 0.2.10-3.
gdesklets depends on libxml2 (>= 2.6.20); however:
Version of libxml2 on system is 2.6.16-7.
gdesklets depends on python-xml; however:
Package python-xml is not installed.
dpkg: error processing gdesklets (--install):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
gdesklets
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

However, thanks a lot for your help

Alez

jonaskoelker, thanks for reply

I also tried what you suggest, and I got an error message saying that the gdeskets verion 0.35 cannot be found.

When I checked into my sources.list file, I got these lines:

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deb ftp://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/debian/ stable main
deb-src ftp://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/debian/ stable main

deb http://debian.ethz.ch/debian/ stable main
deb-src http://debian.ethz.ch/debian/ stable main

deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main

deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ sarge main

=============================================

I guess that, I have to put some repositories for the "testing" package, but I have no idea how to do this ..

Could you please suggest me how to add them ?

Thanks again for your help

Alez

Copy all the lines that say stable, then change stable to testing in those new lines.

I'd recommend you use the official ftp.debian.* repositories (I have used .org with success myself). At least try it in the interest of fault isolation.

hth --Jonas

Thanks jonaskoelker,

This works fine as well as solving the start up problem of my gdesklets,

Alez

You're welcome. You may want to say "solved" in the top of the thread (so that new readers can quickly browse on, or read the solution).

Here's a few examples of what I mean: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=353843 and http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=351315

Just a suggestion.