records and debian package system

[bxf4@psu.edu (Brian P. Flaherty)]

Hello,

I have been using Debian for about two weeks now and I am very
impressed by it.  I have question regarding package installation
when there are dependency problems.

Using dselect, I tried to install the records package.  (I am working
from the CD's of potato release 3 and a modem connection.)  When
dselect tries to set up the records package, it encounters an error
when trying to build records-utils.el because it cannot find mc-pgp.
When I try to install mailcrypt, dselect says it needs pgp, gnupg,
etc.  But the version of gnupg available conflicts with the version of
mailcrypt available.  I know I could go download the most current
versions of these packages and build them all myself, but what is the
best way to handle this to accomodate the package system?  Thanks for
your time.

Brian Flaherty

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