Help, caught in apt/dselect treadmill; trying to install Tomcat
I am running kernelversion 2.2, from CDrom install. I did the simple
configuration, and even then it had a list of about 16-18 install
problems, unresolved dependencies. I ran install again, more
resolved.
I wanted to get tomcat, so grabbed it from:
http://master.debian.org/~sgybas/tomcat/,
but:
>
tomcat depends on libxerces-java
> libxerces-java
does not appear to be available
> tomcat depends
on libservlet2.2-java
>
libservlet2.2-java does not appear to be
available
So it required some unstable packages, so I added an unstable ftp source
to my apt/source.list, and it did indeed find the two required packages,
but also about 189 (90MB) of other stuff.
-- (Any way to have just gotten the one desired thing from
unstable?)
Then it had dependency problems, and did a few other iterations of
update, and install.
Syntax
error on line 133 of /etc/apache/srm.conf:
Invalid command 'AddDefaultCharsetName', perhaps mis-spelled or defined
by a module not included in the server configuration
/usr/sbin/apachectl start: httpd could not be started
dpkg: error processing jserv (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status
3
Errors were encountered while processing:
jserv
Apache had a bad option line in srm.conf, so I had to manually delete it,
then apache installed.
Now, two more items show up missing:
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Get:1
ftp://ftp.us.debian.org
unstable/main libcapplet0 1:1.2.2-4 [15.4kB]
Err ftp://ftp.us.debian.org unstable/main libcapplet0 1:1.2.2-4
Unable to fetch file, server said '/debian/dists/woody/main/binary-i386/libs/libcapplet0_1.2.2-4.deb: No such file or directory. '
Failed to fetch ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/binary-i386/libs/libcapplet0_1.2.2-4.deb
Unable to fetch file, server said '/debian/dists/woody/main/binary-i386/libs/libcapplet0_1.2.2-4.deb: No such file or directory. '
E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe try with --fix-missing?
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1) What should I do?
2) Why is Debian install so messy? This is a clean install, and even before getting into Tomcat, I got several unresolved dependencies.
Thanks for any guidance!
Gregory Guthrie
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=========== /etc/apt/sources.list
# first get from (local) CDrom
deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r0 _Potato_ - Official i386 Binary-3 (20000814)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main
deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r0 _Potato_ - Official i386 Binary-2 (20000814)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main
deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r0 _Potato_ - Official i386 Binary-1 (20000814)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main
# look-through to the main archives?
#deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian dists/stable-updates
# I (also) want to get some unstable things.. (tomcat)
#deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
#deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian dists/unstable-updates
deb ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
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Gregory Guthrie
guthrie@mum.edu (641)472-1125 Fax: -1103
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