Re: [Hampshire] pptp GUI on debian lenny

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Author: Dr Adam J Trickett
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To: Will Davies
CC: Hants LUG
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] pptp GUI on debian lenny
On Tue, 05 Feb 2008 at 07:52:30AM +0000, Will Davies wrote:
> Dr Adam J Trickett wrote:
> >On Mon, 04 Feb 2008 at 02:33:55PM +0000, Will Davies wrote:
> >
> >>Can anyone suggest a GUI for setting up a client connection to a pptp
> >>server in Debian Lenny. As pptpconfig depends on php-gtk-pcntl, synaptic
> >>won't let me install it. My reading suggests that this functionality
> >>should be covered by a Network Manager plugin, this appears to be
> >>available for Ubuntu but not Debian. Any clues.
> >>
> >
> >Have you tried:
> >
> >http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/howto-debian.phtml
> >
> >It looks long, but it may work.
> >
> >
> Thanks Adam,
> I had read that.
> apt-get install pptpconfig...requires php-gtk-pcntl
>
> apt-get install php-gtk-pcntl...requires libglib1.2
>
> apt-get install libglib1.2.......package libglib1.2 has no installation
> candidate


I thought half way down you needed to add an extra repository, from where
to get the bits that aren't yet in Lenny. I've not tried it myself, but
it is something I had considered.

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Adam Trickett
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