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Re: Installing X



On Mon, 2002-09-02 at 15:41, Designer wrote:
> You might want to tun 'apt-get -f install' to correct these:
> Sorry, but the following pacakages have unmet depencencies:
> gettext: Depends: gettext-el but it is not going to be installed
> x-window-system: Depends: twm but it is not going to be installed
> Depends: xnest but it is not going to be installed
> 	: xspecs	"
> 	: xterm		"
> 	: xvfb		"
> 
> 
> Now when I try 	'apt-get -f install'
> 
> It tells me that 18 packages not fully installed and I need to get 
> 0B/41.8kB
> 
> I answer [Y]   but it fails????
> 
> Any ideas?

It is possible that you do not have the needed entries in your
/etc/apt/sources.list file, in that case the system would be unable to
download the needed packages.

Try running apt-setup and pick a mirror next to you, run apt-update
after that and try dselect again.

Matt



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