Ximian Gnome Problem
Installation of Ximian Gnome Desktop failed, left problems I can't resolve.
Last week I started download/installation of the full ximian gnome
desktop from the ximian web site. The lengthy download timed out at
about 50%. When restarted it completed the download of 319 files then
the installation failed in mid-process. A subseqent dpkg command found
many conflicting dependencies and aborted unable to resolve them all.
The next time I tried to use apt-get it removed 100 files. After this I
no longer had mozilla and when I tried apt-get --fix-broken
--fix-missing install mozilla it reported that this could not be
installed as an ximian file was to be installed.
Not knowing how to find and remove the conflicting ximian files and
having no mozilla, I thought to try again to install the ximian gnome
desktop from the stable distribution (I'm running debian linux 2.2.19)
with apt-get install task-ximian-gnome (an alternative listed at the
ximian web site) There is, however, no such .deb package in the stable
distribution. I next looked in ftp.ximian.com where I found a signature
package for task-ximian-gnome but nothing else.
I have sent a couple of emails to distribution@ximian.com and yesterday
tried filing a bug report but as yet have received no response.
Does anyone know how clean up - i.e. remove all the conflicting pieces
of the ximian installation - other than wiping out my entire debian
installation and starting over?
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