I got in dependency hell...
 

I'm using pclinuxos and trying to install empathy.

The version in repository blinks (opens, right after, closes).

The newest version is compiling from source, many dependencies, can't be installed automatically.

The previous version:

- rpm -ivh rpmfilename is many dependencies too that can't be installed automatically too

I tried gui:

- installing apturl, clicking the rpm file link, opening it with apturl, installation gui alerts error message
- opening the rpm file with Synaptic doesn't work
- opening the rpm file with /usr/bin/apt-get doesn't work

If I add the previous rpm repository to Synaptic, what will it do to the current?

If I apt-cache add previousname.rpm, what will Synaptic and apt do to the current and what will the apt-get install previousname (.rpm? no .rpm?) be?

I found the previous version at:http://ftp.riken.go.jp/archives/Linu...010/RPMS.main/ So I added http://ftp.riken.go.jp/archives/Linux/pclinuxos/apt/ with pclinuxos/2010 and main. Then, I opened Synaptic, updated the package list, but there was only the newest version, so Force Version was grayed.

Finally, I tried:
su
apt-get update
apt-get install empathy=2.30.1-1pclos2010

E: Version ='2.30.1-1' for 'empathy' was not found

Synaptic > "Refresh". Or : # apt-get update :

Then the available 'empathy' is now version '2.32.1'.
( empathy-2.32.1-1pclos2010 ).

But the "ftp.riken.go.jp/archives/....." is an "archive",
not a repo, that gets updated.

The two lines currently used in my /etc/apt/sources.list are :
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I know how to add an archive to Synaptic, but how to add a repository? Also, I was trying to install a older version, because the current in repository wasn't working and the newest was source. How to install the older version?

The new ( 2010 ) repo = /etc/apt/sources.list is attached here, post #3

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...tory-855319/#3


Old packages : http://ftp.uwsg.iu.edu/array2/linux/sam/repo/

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