How do I install the latest Banshee?

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Troken

How do I install the latest Banshee?

Post by Troken »

Hi, I have Banshee 1.6.1, but I saw that 1.8.1 is the current stable version. I have followed the instructions on Banshee's download page:

apt-get install banshee

However, it only reports that I already have the latest version. Anyone knows what might be the problem?
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sgosnell

Re: How do I install the latest Banshee?

Post by sgosnell »

You will seldom see the latest version of anything in the Debian Testing repositories. Software gets tested in Unstable, and perhaps Experimental, before it get into Testing. I'm using Sid (unstable) and I have 1.9.3-2 installed. Think carefully before you change your repositories to Sid, though. It works for me, but I'm not you.
Troken

Re: How do I install the latest Banshee?

Post by Troken »

Thanks for the warning. I added:
http://security.debian.org/ unstable/updates
but could not get it to work. Is that the right repository? I just might stick to some other music player for the moment, thanks anyway.
zerozero

Re: How do I install the latest Banshee?

Post by zerozero »

there is no security repo for sid (unstable)
sgosnell

Re: How do I install the latest Banshee?

Post by sgosnell »

That's not the right repository, and as zerozero noted, there is no security repo for sid/unstable. Banshee is in the main repository. Be aware that there might be dependency problems when installing newer software from a different repository, because a package may depend on libraries that you don't currently have installed. I don't know about this specific package, but it's certainly possible that you won't be able to do a direct install without going entirely to Sid, and you may not want to do that.
zerozero

Re: How do I install the latest Banshee?

Post by zerozero »

without fully upgrading to sid i'm afraid atm banshee (1.9.3) is not installable in testing.
check bellow the dependency loop :mrgreen:

http://release.debian.org/migration/tes ... ge=banshee
Troken

Re: How do I install the latest Banshee?

Post by Troken »

Quick answers, cheers guys! I'll just wait then, see what happens in the future.
pan

Re: How do I install the latest Banshee?

Post by pan »

Hi! I have just one question...I am trying to install banshee, but I get dependencies error:

banshee:
Depends: libcairo2 (>=1.10.2-2~) but 1.10.0-1ubuntu2 is to be installed

EDIT: Oh, I use LMDE.
sgosnell

Re: How do I install the latest Banshee?

Post by sgosnell »

You're running LMDE and have Ubuntu repos in your sources? What does your sources.list look like?
pan

Re: How do I install the latest Banshee?

Post by pan »

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deb http://packages.linuxmint.com/ debian main upstream import
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing main non-free
Oh and which ubuntu repo should I add?
sumski

Re: How do I install the latest Banshee?

Post by sumski »

pan wrote:

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deb http://packages.linuxmint.com/ debian main upstream import
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ testing/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing main non-free
Oh and which ubuntu repo should I add?
None!
You can try installing banshee with aptitude

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sudo aptitude install banshee
and it will ofer you to upgrade libcairo with debian's version
pan

Re: How do I install the latest Banshee?

Post by pan »

Thank you, it's working! :-)
Aptitude also removed some packages (some "gir" files and few libreoffice files (impress and 2 other), so I had to install libreoffice again (it just added the missing ones).
Do you know the reason why would aptitude want to remove these packages?
Now everything works fine.
sumski

Re: How do I install the latest Banshee?

Post by sumski »

pan wrote:Thank you, it's working! :-)
Aptitude also removed some packages (some "gir" files and few libreoffice files (impress and 2 other), so I had to install libreoffice again (it just added the missing ones).
Do you know the reason why would aptitude want to remove these packages?
Now everything works fine.
I will try to reproduce...
sumski

Re: How do I install the latest Banshee?

Post by sumski »

Can't reproduce , i already updated cairo; you can check /var/log/aptitude and see what aptitude did.
pan

Re: How do I install the latest Banshee?

Post by pan »

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Log complete.
Aptitude 0.6.3: log report
Wed, May  4 2011 09:12:28 +0200

IMPORTANT: this log only lists intended actions; actions which fail due to
dpkg problems may not be completed.

Will install 0 packages, and remove 18 packages.
91.3 MB of disk space will be freed
===============================================================================
[REMOVE, NOT USED] gir1.2-atk-1.0
[REMOVE, NOT USED] gir1.2-clutter-1.0
[REMOVE, NOT USED] gir1.2-freedesktop
[REMOVE, NOT USED] gir1.2-gdkpixbuf-2.0
[REMOVE, NOT USED] gir1.2-gstreamer-0.10
[REMOVE, NOT USED] gir1.2-gtk-2.0
[REMOVE, NOT USED] gir1.2-json-glib-1.0
[REMOVE, NOT USED] gir1.2-pango-1.0
[REMOVE, NOT USED] libreoffice-base
[REMOVE, NOT USED] libreoffice-base-core
[REMOVE, NOT USED] libreoffice-calc
[REMOVE, NOT USED] libreoffice-emailmerge
[REMOVE, NOT USED] libreoffice-filter-binfilter
[REMOVE, NOT USED] libreoffice-impress
[REMOVE, NOT USED] libreoffice-java-common
[REMOVE, NOT USED] libreoffice-writer
[REMOVE, NOT USED] libseed0
[REMOVE, NOT USED] libwps-0.2-2
I already reinstalled libreoffice but there are also few gir1 files...do I have to install them too?
sumski

Re: How do I install the latest Banshee?

Post by sumski »

Maybe they where previously installed , but no longer needed; aptitude automatically removes no longer needed packages. If you want you can install them , if you really need them.
EDIT:
gir.freedesktop is no longer in Sid and testing , so they are "obsolote"
http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/gir1.0-freedesktop
pan

Re: How do I install the latest Banshee?

Post by pan »

Oh, thanks again for your help! I am using LMDE for a day and I felt a little lost :-)
sumski

Re: How do I install the latest Banshee?

Post by sumski »

No problem:)
Hope you like it! :D
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