Re: apt-get help

[Antonio Rodriguez <arodriguez@worldnet.att.net>]

I would say that probably you ran dselect first, and that package got selected. The
easiest way would be to start dselect , then find "exim" with
/ exim Enter
and unistall it.

Ted Roden wrote:

> this is a pretty dumb question, but its driving me
> crazy...
>
> I'm trying to install software with apt-get and i'm
> getting errors for packages I didn't try to install.
> Not the dependancies of the package i want,
> but a totally unrelated package...
>
> ie:
>
> $ apt-get install lynx
> Reading Page lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> You might want to run `apt-get -f install` to correct these:
> Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
>         exim: Depends: libpcre1 but it is not going to be installed
>         eximon: Depends: xlib6g (>= 3.3-5) but it is not going to be
> installed
> E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install`  with no packages (or
> specify a solution)
>
> how can i get rid of this?
>
> Thanks.
> ted.
>
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