<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530851185534_23470" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530851185534_23614">Before I go off half-cocked, here is what I think I should do. Basically manually download 3 specific files and then run dpkg.<br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530851185534_23704"><br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530851185534_23705">>> Depends: libcgal12 but it is not installable<br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530851185534_23706">> It's not findable in the<br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530851185534_23707">> https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/debian/pool/main/libc/ tree but rather<br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530851185534_23708">> in https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/debian/pool/main/c/cgal/<br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530851185534_23709">This lists:<br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530851185534_23710"> libcgal12_4.9-1+b2_amd64.deb 18-Jan-2017 23:30 319K<br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530851185534_23711">Download it. (Computer is AMD64)<br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530851185534_23712"><br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530851185534_23715">>> Depends: libqt5scintilla2-12v5 (>=2.8.4) but it is not installable<br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530851185534_23716">> Found it in<br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530851185534_23717">> https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/debian/pool/main/q/qscintilla2/ <br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530851185534_23718">This lists:<br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530851185534_23719"></span><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530851185534_23614"> libqt5scintilla2-12v5-dbg_2.9.3+dfsg-4_amd64.deb 14-Nov-2016 09:55 9M</span><br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530851185534_23720"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530851185534_23614"> libqt5scintilla2-12v5-dbg_2.9.3+dfsg-5+b1_amd64.deb 25-Sep-2017 10:00 9M</span><br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530851185534_23721"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530851185534_23614"> libqt5scintilla2-12v5_2.9.3+dfsg-4_amd64.deb 14-Nov-2016 09:55 805K</span><br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530851185534_23722"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530851185534_23614"> libqt5scintilla2-12v5_2.9.3+dfsg-5+b1_amd64.deb 25-Sep-2017 10:00 805K</span><br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530851185534_23723"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530851185534_23614"></span><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530851185534_23614"></span><br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530851185534_23724"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530851185534_23614"></span><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530851185534_23614">I don't need debug, and I probably should get latest entry, so download the last file.<br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530851185534_23726"><br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530851185534_23727">> So, in that case, you can delve into<br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530851185534_23728">https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/debian/pool/main/o/openscad/ , <br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530851185534_23729">> find and fetch the right .deb file for the desired release and your CPU<br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530851185534_23730">> archicture, and then do 'dpkg -i [packagename]'.<br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530851185534_23731"><br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530851185534_23732"> openscad_2015.03-2+dfsg-2_amd64.deb 27-Nov-2016 18:23 2M<br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530851185534_23733"><br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530851185534_23734">Download this file.<br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530851185534_23735"><br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530851185534_23736">Now the 3 files are in a known directory. <br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530851185534_23737">Can any directory be used? <br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530851185534_23738">Some web searching suggests /var/cache/apt/archives/<br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530851185534_23739">Is this necessary, or just a common practice?<br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530851185534_23740"><br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530851185534_23741">Finally: </span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530851185534_23883"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530851185534_23614">`apt-get update`<br></span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530851185534_23884"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530851185534_23614">`dpkg -i <local_path>openscad`<br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530851185534_23743"><br id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530851185534_23744"></span><br></div><div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530851185534_23476" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530851185534_23475"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530851185534_23474"> <div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530851185534_23473"> <font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530851185534_23472" size="2" face="Arial"> <hr id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530851185534_23471" size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Rick Moen <rick@linuxmafia.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> "conspire@linuxmafia.com" <conspire@linuxmafia.com> <br> <b id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530851185534_23548"><span style="font-weight: bold;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530851185534_23547">Sent:</span></b> Friday, June 29, 2018 3:40 PM<br> <b id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530851185534_23550"><span style="font-weight: bold;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530851185534_23549">Subject:</span></b> Re: [conspire] upgrade and grub<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530851185534_23478"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">It's still in the packages pool, though.<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/debian/pool/main/o/openscad/" target="_blank" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530851185534_23577">https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/debian/pool/main/o/openscad/</a><br clear="none">(I'm using one Debian mirror site at kernel.org for this example, but<br clear="none">there are many others.)<br clear="none"><br clear="none">On the machine where OpenSCAD is installed and working, do 'dpkg -s<br clear="none">openscad'. Note the package version for OpenSCAD as well as for all<br clear="none">the listed dependencies. With reasonable luck, the only one of those<br clear="none">missing on the other machine is the openscad package itself (because<br clear="none">it's been removed from Testing). So, in that case, you can delve into<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/debian/pool/main/o/openscad/" target="_blank">https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/debian/pool/main/o/openscad/ </a>, find and<br clear="none">fetch the right .deb file for the desired release and your CPU<br clear="none">archicture, and then do 'dpkg -i [packagename]'.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Above you say something about 'missing libraries'. I have no idea what<br clear="none">that refers to. (But you do get to that.)<br clear="none"><br clear="none">libs packages remain in the package pool even if, say, the Testing track<br clear="none">has removed them. See the top of the pool tree at<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/debian/pool/main/" target="_blank" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1530851185534_23572">https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/debian/pool/main/ </a>. Notice that the<br clear="none">libraries package are _not_ under 'l' but rather are under liba, libb,<br clear="none">libc, etc. However, this is tricky, because often libs packages are<br clear="none">stored under the main package to which they pertain.<br clear="none"><br clear="none"> Computer 2 lists th<br clear="none"> Depends: libcgal12 but it is not installable<br clear="none"><br clear="none">This is a lib for CGAL (Computational Geometry Algorithms Library).<br clear="none">It's not findable in the<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/debian/pool/main/libc/" target="_blank">https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/debian/pool/main/libc/ </a>tree but rather<br clear="none">in <a shape="rect" href="https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/debian/pool/main/c/cgal/" target="_blank">https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/debian/pool/main/c/cgal/</a><br clear="none"><br clear="none"> Depends: libqt5scintilla2-12v5 (>=2.8.4) but it is not<br clear="none">installable<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Package is a lib for the Qt5 port of the Scintilla source code editing<br clear="none">widget.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Again, no luck under /debian/pool/main/libq/. Found it in<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/debian/pool/main/q/qscintilla2/" target="_blank">https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/debian/pool/main/q/qscintilla2/ </a>.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">You may have to do a bit of fiddling, collecting exactly the right<br clear="none">.deb package files and putting them in semi-manually using 'dpkg -i<br clear="none">packagename'.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">(Anyone having easier ways feel welcome to speak up.)<br></div> </div> </div> </div></div></body></html>