Xapian discuss - Nov 2008 - debian etch packages

Hi,
  I'd like to know if the directions for the apt repository for debian
etch, on the project website,
http://xapian.org/download.php
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$ su -
enter your root password
# wget -O- http://www.xapian.org/debian/archive_key.asc|apt-key add -
# exit
...
...

If you're running Debian stable (etch) add the following to your
sources.list:

    deb http://www.xapian.org/debian stable main
    deb-src http://www.xapian.org/debian stable main

If you're running Debian testing (and the packages haven't propagated
in Debian yet) or unstable (and the packages haven't yet been uploaded
to Debian), add the following to your sources.list:

    deb http://www.xapian.org/debian unstable main
    deb-src http://www.xapian.org/debian unstable main
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  are up-to-date?

  I am running Debian Etch 4.0, but they do not seem to be working quite right.
  Specifically, using:
deb http://www.xapian.org/debian stable main
deb-src http://www.xapian.org/debian stable main
$ sudo apt-get -f update
Reading package lists... Done
W: Conflicting distribution: http://www.xapian.org stable Release
(expected stable but got etch)
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems

Yet if I change this to
deb http://www.xapian.org/debian etch main
deb-src http://www.xapian.org/debian etch main
$ sudo apt-get -f update
$ sudo apt-get install xapian-omega
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Suggested packages:
  unzip antiword libwpd-tools unrtf xpdf-utils gs-common catdoc
libwps-tools catdvi djvulibre-bin
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  xapian-omega
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 10 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/276kB of archives.
After unpacking 926kB of additional disk space will be used.
Selecting previously deselected package xapian-omega.
(Reading database ... 23168 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking xapian-omega (from .../xapian-omega_1.0.7-3~bpo40+1_i386.deb) ...
Setting up xapian-omega (1.0.7-3~bpo40+1) ...
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I have no problems, yet
$ sudo apt-get install xapian-core
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
E: Couldn't find package xapian-core

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The testing repositories produced similar results.  Am I doing
something wrong?
For now I'm sticking to the source.

Cheers,
  Joe

On Sun, Nov 02, 2008 at 12:56:59PM +0900, Josef Novak
wrote:
>   Specifically, using:
> deb http://www.xapian.org/debian stable main
> deb-src http://www.xapian.org/debian stable main
> $ sudo apt-get -f update
> Reading package lists... Done
> W: Conflicting distribution: http://www.xapian.org stable Release
> (expected stable but got etch)
> W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
"W" here is short for "Warning" - this shouldn't be a
problem.  Possibly
we should instead suggest that people specify "etch" rather than
"stable" in the instructions since you're the second person to be
worried by this.
> I have no problems, yet
> $ sudo apt-get install xapian-core
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... Done
> E: Couldn't find package xapian-core
xapian-core is the source package - it produces several binary packages,
but none of them are called xapian-core.
    
Just installing xapian-omega will ensure you have the runtime library
(which is currently libxapian15).  The same goes for any other
(non-broken) debian package which depends on Xapian.

If you want to compile software yourself using Xapian then you need to
install libxapian-dev.

Cheers,
    Olly