Apt-get Confusion

[Lane Lester <llester@mindspring.com>]

According to the apt-get man page:
  install
     install is followed by one or more packages desired
     for installation.  Each package is a package  name,
     not  a fully qualified filename (for instance, in a
     Debian GNU/Linux system, ldso would be the argument
     provided,   not   ldso_1.9.6-2.deb).  All  packages
     required by the package(s) specified for  installa­
     tion  will  also  be  retrieved  and installed.

I must be doing something wrong, because the last sentence above is
not true for me. All apt-get does is tell me what's missing:
CorelLinux:/home/llester# apt-get install ripple     
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Sorry, ripple is already the newest version
You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these:
Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
  ripple: Depends: libaudiofile0 but it is not installed
          Depends: libesd-alsa0 (>= 0.2.16) but it is not installed
          Depends: libggi2 (> 1:1.99.2.0b2.1) but it is not installed
          Depends: libgii0 (> 1:0.6) but it is not installed
          Depends: libsdl1.0 but it is not installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or
specify a solution).

I did run apt-get update before the above. The above example is not
unique; I almost always get the same kind of report. And when I try
to install the missing items, there's always something wrong with
that: incomplete filename, wrong filename, etc.
-- 
Lane
----
Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA
----
Getting where I want to be with Corel Linux