Re: some trouble in upgrade to gnome 2.4
His 2.4 packages depend on the experimental XFree 4.3 packages. That is
what you are seeing.
On Sat, 2003-10-11 at 10:09, YuRiX wrote:
> i'm using the repository made by <fpeters@entrouvert.be> to begin
> playing with gnome 2.4, but i have encountered this trouble during the
> upgrade :
>
> apt-get install gnome-control-center libmetacity0 metacity
> 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:
> gnome-control-center: Depends: xlibs (> 4.3.0) but 4.2.1-12.1 is to be
> installed
> libmetacity0: Depends: xlibs (> 4.3.0) but 4.2.1-12.1 is to be
> installed
> metacity: Depends: xlibs (> 4.3.0) but 4.2.1-12.1 is to be installed
> E: Broken packages
>
> and when i specify the target distribution as experimental to solve the
> dependency :
> apt-get -t experimental install gnome-control-center libmetacity0
> metacity
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> The following extra packages will be installed:
> xbase-clients xfree86-common xlibs xlibs-data xlibs-dev
> Suggested packages:
> twm x-window-manager
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
> gnome gnome-applets gnome-core gnome-panel gnome-panel-data
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
> xlibs-data
> The following packages will be upgraded
> gnome-control-center libmetacity0 metacity xbase-clients
> xfree86-common
> xlibs xlibs-dev
> 7 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 5 to remove and 27 not upgraded.
> Need to get 12.0MB of archives.
> After unpacking 5435kB disk space will be freed.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
>
> my system asks me if i want remove the gnome packages i've previously
> installed from the frederic repository :
>
> ii gnome 31 The GNOME Desktop Environment
> ii gnome-applets 2.4.0-0 Various applets for GNOME 2 panel
> ii gnome-core 31 The GNOME Desktop Environment --
> essential c
> ii gnome-panel 2.4.0-0 Launch and/or dock GNOME 2
> applications
> ii gnome-panel-data 2.4.0-0 Common files for GNOME 2 panel
>
>
>
>
> --
> YuRiX <yurix@firenze.linux.it>
>
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