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Luiz Rodrigo
Asked: 2012-05-04 10:59:58 +0800 CST

How to enable packages from older ubuntu releases?

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There's a time I'm wanting to enable MSN with empathy (as you can see on my other question Connecting Empathy to Windows Live) but I always get problems with dependencies while installing packages. For instance, I want to install the package telepathy-haze, but it depends on the package libpurple0. Ok, but when I try to sudo apt-get install libpurple0 it says I got unmet dependencies: it depends upon libgstfarsight0.10-0 (>= 0.0.3), libperl5.12 (>= 5.12.4), and perlapi-5.12.4, all of them cannot be installed. When I search for these packages at http://packages.ubuntu.com, I can only find them as Oneiric packages, not as Precise. How can I install packages from older releases, such as Oneiric, and solve this kind of problem?

dependencies apt 11.10 12.04

1 Answers

  1. Download all the debs you need and use dpkg to install the files one by one.

    dpkg does not check for dependencies so you can hose your system so plan it carefully.

    edit: Looks like libgstfarsight got replaced with package farstream

    So you need to install libgstfarsight0.10-0 (>= 0.0.3), libperl5.12 (>= 5.12.4), and perlapi-5.12.4 with dpkg and you should then be able to install telepathy-haze (libpurple will install itself)

    Another option:

    Tarball with source can be found here with a newest version created 2012.04 (so it is very recent): http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/releases/telepathy-haze/

    Looks like this one depends on telepathy-glib ≥ 0.13.9 and libpurple ≥ 2.7.0.

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