Re: dpkg problem

[Kaleb Daark <kalebd@dingoblue.net.au>]

I have experienced similar results when the package archives are incomplete
and/or corrupted. Deleting the first .deb and then downloading it again has
fixed things, even though the files are exactly the same size etc.
In other instances retrying the exactly same command has rectified the
"error"!
I'm sure someone more experienced may have more info, but that's what I've
found.

KD

On Tue, 7 Nov 2000, Joel Dinel wrote:
> Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 07:57:25 +1100
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> From: Joel Dinel <kint@videotron.ca>
> Subject: dpkg problem
> 
> I did an apt-get install task-kde this afternoon. I got a message that
> task-kde would not be installed because some other package was not
> installable. After hunting down the problem package, I try to install it
> :

< snip > 

> And that's it. Pretty, huh? I am not given any further detail on what the
> problem is. 
> 
> Anybody else ever encountered that ?
> 
> Thanks !
> 
> -- 
> 
> Joel Dinel
> kint@videotron.ca