Re: Nautilus unstable install fails.Bug?

[Colin Walters <walters@debian.org>]

Laurent <ldesegur@mac.com> writes:

> Not so fast... It worked when I was doing an apt-get
> update/dist-upgrade on a woody machine with apt/sources.list
> pointing to unstable deb packages.

Then you would be just upgrading to unstable.

> Now, if I do the nautilus install on another system with testing
> installed and APT::Default-Release "testing"; in my debconf, then I
> get the following error.
>
> Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
>    nautilus: Depends: gconf (>= 1.0.7) but 1.0.4-3 is to be installed
>              Depends: libeel0 (>= 1.0.2) but 1.0.1-2 is to be installed
>              Depends: libgconf11 (>= 1.0.7) but 1.0.4-3 is to be installed
>              Depends: libgnome-vfs0 (>= 1.0.3) but 1.0.1-2 is to be
>              installed
>              Depends: libnautilus0 (>= 1.0.6) but it is not going to
>              be installed
>
> Do I need to remove the line in debconf to just to a nautilus
> install?  Thanks for your help,

apt isn't going to install the packages from unstable, since you told
it to use testing by default.  You might as well just
s/testing/unstable/ in your /etc/apt/sources.list, and apt-get
dist-upgrade.