Ivan wrote:
I've had a quick look at aptitude (to install GNUCash), but I could not get it to update new packages. I just get "0B downloaded in 0S". Have I lost the plot? Will I be able to install GNUCash this way?
What syntax are you using to update your package list, and install gnucash? The following should work without problems:
bnonn(a)jade:~ $ sudo aptitude update bnonn(a)jade:~ $ aptitude install gnucash
You'll need a lot of dependencies, it seems; when I run this command, I get:
Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done The following NEW packages will be automatically installed: bonobo gdk-imlib1 gnome-bin gnome-libs-data gnucash-common gsfonts-x11 guile-1.6 guile-1.6-slib libart2 libbonobo2 libcompress-zlib-perl libdate-manip-perl libefs1 libfinance-quote-perl libfont-afm-perl libgal-data libgal23 libgdk-pixbuf-gnome2 libgdk-pixbuf2 libghttp1 libglade-gnome0 libglade0 libglib1.2 libgnome32 libgnomeprint-bin libgnomeprint-data libgnomeprint15 libgnomesupport0 libgnomeui32 libgnorba27 libgnorbagtk0 libgtk1.2 libgtk1.2-common libgtkhtml20 libguppi16 libgwrapguile1 libhtml-format-perl libhtml-parser-perl libhtml-tableextract-perl libhtml-tagset-perl libhtml-tree-perl libltdl3 libmailtools-perl liboaf0 libofx0c102 liborbit0 libtimedate-perl liburi-perl libwww-perl libxml1 libzvt2 oaf slib The following NEW packages will be installed: bonobo gdk-imlib1 gnome-bin gnome-libs-data gnucash gnucash-common gsfonts-x11 guile-1.6 guile-1.6-slib libart2 libbonobo2 libcompress-zlib-perl libdate-manip-perl libefs1 libfinance-quote-perl libfont-afm-perl libgal-data libgal23 libgdk-pixbuf-gnome2 libgdk-pixbuf2 libghttp1 libglade-gnome0 libglade0 libglib1.2 libgnome32 libgnomeprint-bin libgnomeprint-data libgnomeprint15 libgnomesupport0 libgnomeui32 libgnorba27 libgnorbagtk0 libgtk1.2 libgtk1.2-common libgtkhtml20 libguppi16 libgwrapguile1 libhtml-format-perl libhtml-parser-perl libhtml-tableextract-perl libhtml-tagset-perl libhtml-tree-perl libltdl3 libmailtools-perl liboaf0 libofx0c102 liborbit0 libtimedate-perl liburi-perl libwww-perl libxml1 libzvt2 oaf slib 0 packages upgraded, 54 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 12.5MB of archives. After unpacking 46.1MB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]
Aptitude is a bit better than apt-get, and it's pretty easy to use once you get the hang of it. If your initial guess as to the package name doesn't work, it will tell you what packages exist with similar names, and you can also use "aptitude search packagename". After updating your package list, you can also, as with apt-get, upgrade all your packages to the latest version with "aptitude upgrade". HTH. Bnonn