Error on dependency libboost-date-time with .deb package

[Juz]

Hi everyone! I hope this problem has not already been discussed elsewhere.

I'm using Deluge since some months on two Xubuntu systems: a 8.04 version (upgraded to 8.10) on a slow, old machine, and a "natively" 8.10 on a new one. Both are kept updated all the time.

While upgrading Deluge using the .deb package on the new system works wonders, the other one is giving me a strange error: it seems that libboost-date-time is not up to date, but it is (I'm updating all the required dependencies that are listed in the source code README file).

I tried to update it via apt-get, but, as it is already updated, I got no result.
I found a .deb "standalone" package for libboost-date-time named libboost-date-time1.34.1_1.34.1-2ubuntu1.1_i386 that -as I read- should have done the trick, but the system refuses to install it, as the the version in use is newer.

Till now I have been working around this problem by dowloading the source code and compiling it for every update. This works just fine, which amazes me, as compiling does not give me any error about libboost-date-time.
This solution is not a problem by itself, and if it happened on my newer computer I would have not bothered you by opening a thread here. But this issue arose on my slower machine, and compiling takes a couple of hours.

I'm quite sure I'm doing something stupid, related to my "newbieness".
Should someone know how to fix it, I'd be very grateful.
Thanks!

[johnnyg]

well a quick fix would be to ignore the dependency:

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sudo dpkg --ignore-depends=libboost-date-time -i deluge.deb

as a side note, you can install ccache for speeding up compile times on slow machines.

[Juz]

Thanks! I didn't expect such a fast answer!