Re: Missing packages
On Sat, Dec 30, 2006 at 10:54:56AM -0500, Jim Lynch wrote:
> 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.
$ apt-get install udev/sarge-backports
$ apt-get install lsb-base/sarge-backports
Note the 's' at the end of 'sarge-backports'.
Greetings,
Michael
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