Richard, I'm cc'ing the nhc-bugs list because I think my answer might be helpful to others. Apologies for this breach of protocol: On Thu, 06 Feb 2003 23:07:58 -0800 Richard Uhtenwoldt wrote:

Brent Fulgham writes:

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ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/n/nhc98/nhc98_1.4-8_i386.deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/n/nhc98/nhc98-doc_1.4-8_all.deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/h/hmake/hmake_3.06-2_i386.deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/h/hat/hat_2.00-5_i386.deb

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Or, you can adjust your /etc/apt/sources.lst to point to the "testing" branch of Debian and use apt-get to install and handle dependencies for you.

I see from dkpg that the nhc98 binary package requires a newer libc6, installation of which caused dpkg to want to de-install the old libc6, even tho the minor version number's different. I assume upgrading the libc6 would cause the many packages that depend on libc6 to need upgrading, too. (or is that a wrong assumption?).

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my plan is to try to work around the build bug in the non-debianized source tarball, as the less-disruptive way to get nhc on my system --unless you've a better idea.

I belive I do. If you visit each of the locations I gave, you can also get the Debian source files: ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/n/nhc98/nhc98_1.14-8.dsc ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/n/nhc98/nhc98_1.14-8.diff.gz ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/n/nhc98/nhc98_1.14.orig.tar.gz ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/h/hmake/hmake_3.06-2.dsc ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/h/hmake/hmake_3.06-2.diff.gz ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/h/hmake/hmake_3.06.orig.tar.gz ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/h/hat/hat_2.00-5.dsc ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/h/hat/hat_2.00-5.diff.gz ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/h/hat/hat_2.00.orig.tar.gz Download all 9 of these files (or just the first 6 if you only want to get nhc98 and hmake). You can then build the exact packages I provide to the main distribution, except using your library versions. This will insure no incompatibilities with your system setup, but will also put the package in conformance with the Debian set-up, so you don't have to worry about future upgrades, etc. Just do the following (after making sure you have installed the "dpkg-dev" package): bash# dpkg-source -x nhc98_1.14-8.dsc bash# cd nhc98-1.14 bash# dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -or- bash# sudo dpkg-buildpackage You may get some errors at this point complaining about some tools you may not have installed. Just get them from your Debian CD-ROM or elsewhere and continue the build. If it complains about Java, you can override with the "-d" command: dpkg-buildpackage -d And it will attempt to build without it. Just repeat this for the other packages you are interested in. I think this is a good approach, since the packages are known to build properly (because the autobuilders for other architectures have to use them), so this is probably the least-effort way to get a build for your system. Good luck and have fun! -Brent