update depency on Debian 9

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beer
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problem with installing because the lack of package

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I am investigating how well Debian 9 is. And I am trying to install either fah 7.4.4 or 7.4.16. But both of them requres a pacage called python-support which is not in Debian. What is the best way forward? Track it down from 3th parties?
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Re: problem with installing because the lag of package

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have you tried http://packages.ubuntu.com/precise/all/ ... t/download
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Re: problem with installing because the lag of package

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I have not tried to mux ubuntu backage and debian packages because of I know a few people who have tried that and made the ssystem unuseable
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Re: problem with installing because the lag of package

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hmm:
https://tracker.debian.org/news/736768
should folding@home be updated to reflect this changes?
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update depency on Debian 9

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Hi
I know that Debian 9 is not yet out but when it is then there would be problem for installing fah on that linux distro because of:
https://tracker.debian.org/news/736768
eg python-support has been replaced by dh-python. And fah requres python-support so maybe in the next relase you should update the depencies?
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Re: update depency on Debian 9

Post by SteveWillis »

Already in Mint 18 you have to execute this to get FAH to work

wget http://launchpadlibrarian.net/109052632 ... 15_all.deb
sudo dpkg -i python-support_1.0.15_all.deb
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Re: problem with installing because the lag of package

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I think one might want to look at "stretch" when it's closer to release, or at least has a release date, before thinking about what might(not) be in it.
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Re: problem with installing because the lag of package

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The folks who develop operating systems generally remove older library versions of things like python when they're no longer needed for the OS, itself, but they do support software designed at the time that an older version was current. They also provide the methology to use multiple versions concurrently -- although those versions are optional on the new OS version.

FAH has to support not only the latest version of the OS but also many people who are still running earlier versions that are still supported. The real issue here is that FAH doesn't do a very good job of supporting prerequisites with package managers like apt-get.

If FAH decides it requires a specific NEW feature that was added in the latest release, that forces all donors running a stable earlier version to upgrade their OS or components of it. When none of the NEW featurs are qequiere, it better to continue to operate with the earlier version by exercising the OS capabilities of providing support for the earlier library.

In this case, somebody would need to determine if the bug that they're talking about might be encountered by FAH or whether it has already been fixed by some other method.
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