audio players

[Charles Hallenbeck]

Thanks, Jim. I am gradually acquiring a nice set of package tools.

On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, jim grimsby wrote:

> Hi,
> You should also make sure you have apt-show-versions installed.  To do
> this do this.
> Apt-get install apt-show-versions
> Now when you want to know what version of a program you have installed
> you can then
> Type apt-show-versions package name.
> If you do not have it installed it will report that package x is not
> installed.  Replace package name in the above example with the name of
> the package you are looking for.
> Also once you do apt-cache search package name
> And you find the package you are interested  in you can type apt-cache
> show package name to get more information about it.
> Hth
> -----Original Message-----
> From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca
> [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] On Behalf Of Kenny Hitt
> Sent: Monday, April 18, 2005 5:27 AM
> To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
> Subject: Re: audio players
>
>
> hi.
>
> In cases like this, you want to use apt-cache to see what version of
> libpng-dev is available.
>
> apt-cache search libpng-dev
>
> I'm running unstable, so the following line will probably be different
> for you.
>
> libpng12-dev - PNG library - development
>
> Usually, addibional sources won't help since they are mirrors.  The only
> time you want to add entries is if you want to get packages not in the
> Debian archive.
>
> Hope this helps.
>          Kenny
>
> On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 08:14:41AM -0400, Charles Hallenbeck wrote:
>> Okay, I got farther. With debhelper installed, the configuration
>> proceeds until it needs png support, then dies and asks me to install
>> libpng and libpng_dev, but apt-get cannot find libpng, even after
> doing
>> an update.
>>
>> Question: Should I have multiple entries in my source.list? Or are
>> they
>> mostly mirrors? At present I have mirrors.kernel.org,
> ftp.us.debian.org,
>> and http://linux.csua.berkeley.edu/debian/.
>>
>> Would it help to add other sources?
>
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