Re: apt-get help
Did you try: apt-get -f install, as it says??
It looks like you got exim installed, exim depends on some stuff and this
is giving trouble...
Ron Rademaker
On Mon, 14 Aug 2000, 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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