yea, i built the deb from gutsy&#39;s deb-src repository using apt-get source --build.&nbsp; i am trying to figure out why that deb that i build doesn&#39;t work<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/31/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">
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<br><font face="sans-serif" size="2">you may want to generate the .deb rather
than take the deb that was packaged for gutsy.</font>
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<br><font face="sans-serif" size="2">pupeno&#39;s guide to do this: </font>
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<br><font face="sans-serif" size="2"><a href="http://pupeno.com/2006/12/17/unstable-packages-on-ubuntu/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://pupeno.com/2006/12/17/unstable-packages-on-ubuntu/
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<br><tt><font size="2"></font></tt><div><span class="e" id="q_114bd0cc1dd116b1_1"><tt><font size="2">i have ghc6_6.6.1-2ubuntu2_i386.deb and<br>
ghc6-prof_6.6.1-2ubuntu2_i386.deb installed, but i cant seem to get<br>
mtl to install, can someone tell me what this output means? &nbsp; i just<br>
switched to a debian based system from gentoo, so i dont grok dpkg<br>
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aeyakovenko@snowcrash:~$ sudo dpkg -i libghc6-mtl-dev_1.0.1-2_i386.deb<br>
(Reading database ... 129709 files and directories currently installed.)<br>
Preparing to replace libghc6-mtl-dev 1.0-3 (using<br>
libghc6-mtl-dev_1.0.1-2_i386.deb) ...<br>
ghc-pkg: cannot find package mtl-1.0<br>
dpkg: warning - old pre-removal script returned error exit status 1<br>
dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ...<br>
ghc-pkg: cannot find package mtl-1.0<br>
dpkg: error processing libghc6-mtl-dev_1.0.1-2_i386.deb (--install):<br>
 subprocess new pre-removal script returned error exit status 1<br>
Reading package info from stdin ... done.<br>
ghc-pkg: dependency base-2.0 doesn&#39;t exist (use --force to override)<br>
dpkg: error while cleaning up:<br>
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1<br>
Errors were encountered while processing:<br>
 libghc6-mtl-dev_1.0.1-2_i386.deb<br></font></tt></span></div><tt><font size="2">
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