Re: [vox] boy, was that fast!
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Re: [vox] boy, was that fast!
Quoting Peter Jay Salzman (p@dirac.org):
> i'll check it out. i can sync just dandy. i just want something that i
> can look/edit/manage my addressbook (i refuse to call it "contacts") and
> calender (i refuse to call it day planner). i thought pilot-xfer was
> just syncing software, but i'll check it out again.
It _is_ just syncing software. ;-> That was my point: I'm such a
fossil about fancy desktop stuff that I've never even investigated
options.
>> Galeon 1.2.5 does well for me -- and isn't proprietary.
>
> i'll give it a try.
Might as well warn people: Galeon is tied at the hip to Mozilla,
in the sense that it's Mozilla with all the extraneous junk stripped
off and a thoughtfully designed (but slightly stodgy-looking) user
interface in place of Mozilla's XUL stuff.
The Mozilla-dependency needn't be a problem, _but_....
Stick strictly to Debian-testing as your package source, no problems.
Stick strictly to Debian-stable as your package source, no problems.
Stick strictly to Debian-stable plus security updates, no problems.
Use Debian-unstable, and you'll find that getting a new Mozilla package
causes Galeon to be removed, or vice-versa. But you knew
Debian-unstable was a dangerous job when you took it. ;->
But the worst/most-annoying news is that sometimes the Debian Security
Team's archive of security-updates for Debian "testing" will update
Mozilla and remove Galeon -- or vice-versa -- because updates have been
released for one but not the other. I'm talking about this sources.list
line (which I generally recommend for those on "testing"):
deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib non-free
And it happens to be the case _at the moment_ that the security archive
furnishes a Mozilla update (1.0.0-0.woody.1) that causes Galeon to
get removed for lack of a matching version. But there's a fix:
When I noticed that "apt-get dist-upgrade" was going to remove Galeon,
I cancelled to see what could be done, first. Then, I checked the
Galeon Web site to determine which Galeon versions require which Mozilla
versions. I found out that Galeon 1.2.5 is synced with Mozilla 1.0.0.
So, I went looking in the Debian package pool:
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/galeon/ has 1.2.4 versions of
packages galeon and galeon-common. Retrieved them using wget, then
did "apt-get dist-upgrade" (which removed Galeon), then did "dpkg -i"
to put in the two Galeon packages. Works just great.
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