When I try to install ProView 4.8.0-1 or 4.8.1-1 on Ubuntu 10.04, I get

I did some looking, and found that I have libc6_2.11.1-0ubuntu7.8_i386.deb installed. This machine is completely up to date. Is 4.8 not for Ubuntu 10.04? 10.04 is the LTS release.

If this is the case what functionality will be missing or what bugs will I be facing if I install 4.7?

Proview v4.8 is running on Ubuntu 10.10
If you want to run it on 10.04 you must build it from source...

In the release notes you can find the differences.

Regards,

/Marc

With this dependency problem I think you would have no problem to force the installation.

-Robert

Yea; Nothing against building from source, but I just want to learn to run ProView and run some test with modbus/tcp or maybe profibus. In the future, if I need the latest release I'll take that course.

I tried to force the .deb file with --force-depends, but I ended up with broken pwr48 package. It would be nice to install the latest ProView package on the latest LTS Ubuntu distro. I guess beggars can't be choosers.

I decided to install pwr47...followed instructions here http://www.proview.se/index.php?option=com_joomlaboard&Itemid=24&func=view&id=741&catid=5 to satisfy libmysqlclient15off dependency, and everything installed Ok.

What's the chances of getting ProView in the Ubuntu repositories?

I'll be in touch with more questions I'm sure. Thank you very much for your help!