407. Building less (458) as a temporary solution on Debian Jessie

Currently less conflicts with man-db/yelp/gnome-core/gnome on debian jessie. There are probably ways of overriding the conflict, but I prefer to simply compile my own less and install it.

Note that this doesn't take into account WHY less and man-db are listed as conflicting for versions of less below 4.5.6. I simply want less and the way to do it is to compile an approved version of less.

sudo apt-get install build-essential checkinstall
wget http://www.greenwoodsoftware.com/less/less-458.tar.gz
tar xvf less-458.tar.gz
cd less-458/
./configure
make
sudo checkinstall

0 -  Maintainer: [ root@niobium ]
1 -  Summary: [ less 4.5.8 ]
2 -  Name:    [ less ]
3 -  Version: [ 458 ]
4 -  Release: [ 1 ]
5 -  License: [ GPL ]
6 -  Group:   [ checkinstall ]
7 -  Architecture: [ amd64 ]
8 -  Source location: [ less-458 ]
9 -  Alternate source location: [  ]
10 - Requires: [  ]
11 - Provides: [ less ]
12 - Conflicts: [  ]
13 - Replaces: [  ]

405. First breakage in Debian Jessie? less vs man-db

Update 12/5/13: less 456 is in the debian repos now so the breakage is resolved:
http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=less

For some reason less (<456) and man-db conflict. man-db in turn is a requirement for yelp, which is a requirement for gnome-core which is a requirement for gnome. In other words, you currently have a choice between less or gnome.

More here: http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org/msg1117622.html

verahill@debianstd:~/tmp/poppler_build$ sudo apt-get install less

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  gnome gnome-core gnome-user-guide man-db yelp
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  less
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 5 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
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