Hello Felipe<br /><br />Remember that Trisquel is derived from Ubuntu not Debian, in particular Trisquel 3.5 comes from Ubuntu karmic. A quick search of meshlab at packages.ubuntu.com (Karmic section: http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=meshlab&searchon=names&suite=karmic&section=all) reveals that meshlab isn't included in Ubuntu yet. It will be included in lucid (http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?suite=lucid&searchon=names&keywords=meshlab), so it will be available in Trisquel 4.0 next september.<br /><br />I agree that a Trisquel's package list page would be a great thing to have. <br /><br />Regards<br /><br /> <br /><br /><strong>On Mie Abr 14 3:42 , Felipe Sanches sent:<br /><br /></strong><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(245, 245, 245); margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 0px;">example scenario:<br />
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I want to use MeshLab.<br />
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<a href="javascript:top.opencompose('felipe@simon','','','')">felipe@simon</a>:~$ sudo apt-get install meshlab<br />
[...]<br />
Package meshlab is not available, but is referred to by another package.<br />
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or<br />
is only available from another source<br />
E: Package meshlab has no installation candidate<br />
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googling "meshlab debian" I easily fin this page:<br />
<a target="_blank" href="parse.pl?redirect=http%3A%2F%2Fpackages.debian.org%2Fsid%2Fgraphics%2Fmeshlab">http://packages.debian.org/sid/graphics/meshlab</a><br />
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So, what is the reasoning? Why isn't meshlab available in Trisquel?<br />
Was it explicitely removed from Trisquel? If so, for what reason? Was<br />
it due to some specific distro policy? How can the user deal with it<br />
and autonomously decide what to do next once he/she faces the "not<br />
available" message?<br />
<br />
I keep hitting this kind of issue several times since I started using<br />
Trisquel (I think I had this problem with gNewSense too). Can't we<br />
figure out a way of better informing our users about the reasons of<br />
package removals (and perhaps also about unavailability in general)?<br />
For instance, we could have "packages pages" similar to the Debian<br />
ones listing that kind of info about Trisquel. What do you think?<br />
<br />
Felipe Sanches<br />
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