Missing packages
I was following along in a well written article on installing xen on debian sarge at
http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/423 when I encountered this error:
walnut:/home/jwl# apt-get install lsb-base/sarge-backport
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
E: Release 'sarge-backport' for 'lsb-base' was not found
I installed a few other packages from sarge-backport, so I'm assuming I'm configured correctly. I went on to see what might happen if I didn't get to install that package and this error popped up:
walnut:/home/jwl# apt-get install xen-hypervisor-3.0-i386 xen-utils-3.0
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.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
xen-utils-3.0: Depends: udev (> 0.060) but 0.056-3 is to be installed
E: Broken packages
No mention of udev in the article or at least nothing up to that step, but I decide to try to install udev from backports:
walnut:/home/jwl# apt-get install udev/sarge-backport
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
E: Release 'sarge-backport' for 'udev' was not found
OK, well on the off chance it's in the sarge repo, I tried:
walnut:/home/jwl# apt-get install udev
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
udev is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Any suggestions as to what I might try next? I downloaded the latest xen binaries and tried them, but they don't boot. For some reason they can't find my disks.
Thanks,
Jim.
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