On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 08:11:26PM -0400, Larry Everson wrote:
> This is what I got from another mail.
>
> apt-get install expects a package name as parameter. You specified a
> filename (which contains the package name, but that does not count).
> How to find package names is described in the [0]APT HOWTO.
>
> http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-search.en.html#s-cache
Yeah, i know about it, but:
# apt-get install openoffice.org-base
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:
openoffice.org-base: Depends: java-gcj-compat but it is not installable or
j2re1.4 but it is not installable or
java2-runtime but it is not installable
E: Broken packages
# apt-cache search java-gcj-compat
# apt-cache search j2re1.4
# apt-cache search java2-runtime
> After I read it, I was able to do the following and it worked.
>
> apt-get install openoffice.org-base
> apt-get install openoffice.org-calc
> apt-get install openoffice.org-common
> apt-get install openoffice.org-core
> apt-get install openoffice.org-draw
> apt-get install openoffice.org-gnome
> apt-get install openoffice.org-help-en-us
> apt-get install openoffice.org-impress
> apt-get install openoffice.org-math
> apt-get install openoffice.org-writer
Doesn't work for me. Good that it worked for you though! :)
> I thought that I should be able to do a single install rather than
> asking for each one separately. However, it didn't take long and it
> worked for me.
Aye, "apt-get -t sarge-backports openoffice.org" should do the trick; it
doesn't though. Apparently the new openoffice.org-packages depend on a
Java-package which doesn't exists in the repository.
Could you do me a favour and check if you got one of those packages installed:
# dpkg -l java-gcj-compat
# j2re1.4
# java2-runtime
If one of those packages appears as installed you had more luck than i had.
Thanks anyway,
Cheers, Alex.
--
"I am tired of all this sort of thing called science here... We have spent
millions in that sort of thing for the last few years, and it is time it
should be stopped."
-- Simon Cameron, U.S. Senator, on the Smithsonian Institute, 1901.
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