Re: emacs not installable
On 2008-08-21 21:04 +0200, Nishita Desai wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm tring to install Emacs on Debian 4.0r4. Here's what apt-get gives me:
I recommend aptitude instead of apt-get, it produces much better error
messages.
> ff9:/home/nishita# apt-get install emacs
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... Done
> Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
> requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
> distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
> or been moved out of Incoming.
>
> Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
> the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
> that package should be filed.
> The following information may help to resolve the situation:
>
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> emacs: Depends: emacs21 or
> emacs21-nox but it is not going to be installed
> E: Broken packages
>
>
> Synaptic takes me through a chain which ends at: emacsen-common
> I can't find this package anywhere.
Well, it's there: http://packages.debian.org/etch/emacsen-common
How does your sources.list look?
Sven
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