[Discuss] Ubuntu 6.06 release party in Victoria

[p.willis at telus.net]

Quoting Hans Oeste <hoeste at shaw.ca>:

> Soundmodem, xastir and a host of  other things.  Needless to say I was a bit
> annoyed.  Not to say that everything from the amateur category wouldnt load
> but quite a large quantity wouldn't.

>  
> I also tried to load gtk libraries and a few other things and ran into
> difficulty.  It tried to tell me that they were obsolete and that the
> packages they pointed to we not available or some such thing.  I fought with
> it for a while and finally gave up.  Installed ubuntu and then added kde to
> the mix.  Tried to load the newest version and killed soundmodem.  I don't
> have a TNC so the sondmodem has to work.  That really annoyed me. 
> Reinstalled again.  Sheesh.  But I do like my ubuntu/kubuntu.

>  
> Hans

Ah, GTK dependencies are a bit of a bear. Especially
if your currently installed version is much higher than
the version used by the software build.

The biggest mistake you can make is to install the 
latest and greatest GTK and then expect old software
to run. It usually breaks a bunch of things on your
system.

I've tried to upgrade GTK, Pango, ATK, (...etc etc.)
numerous times and they always end up breaking something
once upgraded. Last time I think I just gave up and updated
my distro. Saved me having to recompile every application
on my system to the new libs. Then everything worked again.

Your sound problem could be related to KDE. Last night I
had a sound problem, restarted the computer twice to no avail.
I then just changed my session from KDE to Gnome and back again.
Suddenly my sound works again...(!!???) Maybe locked up the 
sound daemon...

Peter