Re: hosed debian system

[Ardo van Rangelrooij <avrangel@flevonet.nl>]

Hi,

I had this also some time ago.  I just did (within dselect) an Update
of the package lists, chose Install again and everything was fine.  I
guess dselect somehow "lost" some info.

Thanks,
Ardo

Ben Cranston <zben@ni.umd.edu> writes:

> was trying to install package  minicom  and am now in
> a situation where dselect says:
> 
> Broken Required packages in section base
>  U** Req base   libncurses4  4.2-3   4.2-3    Shared libr...
> 
> Broken Optional packages in section x11
>  U** Opt x11    motifnls     2.1-2   2.1-4    Files needed to...
> 
> whatever I do, it says:
> 
> internal error - no filename at -e line 12, <P> chunk 14.
> 
> installation script returned error exit status 1.
> 
> 
> Any suggestions???
> 
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