Re: Installing Gnome 2.2 on Debian 3.0 rev1

[Ben Hill <debian@javacoder.net>]

> More info on what apt-get said would be useful.  Try:
>
> apt-get -u -s install gnome-core ...
>  

My sources.list and install.out is attached but am not sure what lines 
to have in my sources.list to be honest to satisfy gnomes dependencies.

I am running:

apt-get install gnome

to install, not gnome-core.

Cheers,

Ben

# Stable release
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib non-free

# Gnome 2.2
deb http://ftp.acc.umu.se/mirror/mirrors.evilgeniuses.org.uk/debian/backports/woody/ gnome2.2/

# Uncomment if you want the apt-get source function to work
#deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
#deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free

Reading Package Lists...
Building Dependency Tree...
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:

Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
  gnome: Depends: gnome-core (= 28) but it is not going to be installed
         Depends: pan but it is not going to be installed