Does anyone know of a source for Quanta 3.* in .deb format?? To date I have only found source or distro specfic .rpm's. Alternatively can anyone suggest an alternative to Quanta that comes in deb format??

Thanks

Tim

Bluefish is a nice HTML editor, but if you really want to try out Quanta I suggest you build it from source (highly recommended) or use alien to convert the rpm package to a deb.

Håkan

Hmmm, and it seems Debian does carry packages for Quanta.

Håkan

Damm I looked and all I could find were version 2 deb packages. I am fairly new to debian so I don't know all the knooks and crannies to check for packages.

Thanks for the info

Tim

Is there a way to use "dpkg" to install it with all the required dependances or can I do an apt-get from the url you gave??

Tim

The 3.x version is most likely from the Testing (currently "Sarge") or Unstable ("Sid") distributions so you would have to upgrade.

I recommend upgrading to Testing. It is evolving quite quickly (packages trickle down from Sid all the time) and a *lot* more up to date than Woody. There can be some minor problems from time to time but they are usually resolved very quickly.

You can edit your /etc/apt/sources.list and replace "stable" or "woody" with "testing". If you then do an apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade you will upgrade your entire system to the testing distribution.


Håkan

I am already on testing, and have done dist upgrade but still don't have quanta. If I do "apt-cache show quanta" (it shows both version 3.1 and 2.0) it will show me quanta_3.1.4-2_i386.deb but I have not been able to find the right incantation of apt to download it and install it. I downloaded the version you suggested but when I tried dpkg to install it it gave a host of dependances so it should be easier to apt-get it compklete with all required dependances.

Tim