Re: newbie APT troubles
I believe the problem is that Evolution is compiled
with a later C lib. Most questions I needed answered
for apt-get can be found here.
http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/apt-get-intro.html
http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net
Is a good reference too.
--- "Avdi B. Grimm" <avdi@avdi.org> wrote:
> Ok, bear with me, I'm new to the Debian thing.
>
> Just dist-upgraded my Progeny system for the first
> time. Lots of yummy
> new software, no problems.
>
> But now, I want to get some other new packages, and
> upgrade some that
> dist-upgrade didn't. For example, I want Evolution.
> Seems Evolution is
> only in 'unstable'. So, I uncomment the
> debian-unstable line in
> sources.list. Then, I 'apt-get update' and 'apt-get
> install evolution'.
> Whoah, problem:
>
> evolution: Depends: gtkhtml but it is not going
> to be installed
> Depends: libcamel0 (= 0.12-1) but
> it is not going to be
> installed
> Depends: bonobo (>= 1.0.7) but
> 1.0.4-1.0progeny1 is to
> be installed Depends: bonobo-conf (>=
> 0.7) but it is not
> going to be installed
> Depends: libcamel0 but it is not
> going to be installed
> Depends: libgnomeprint15 (>=
> 0.29-1) but it is not
> going to be installed
> Depends: libgtkhtml14 (>= 0.11.1)
> but it is not going
> to be installed
> E: Sorry, broken packages
>
> Whadya mean, "but it is not going to be installed".
> You mean you can't?
> Or you just won't? Do you have some sort of grudge
> against those
> packages? And what's up with "Depends: bonobo (>=
> 1.0.7) but
> 1.0.4-1.0progeny1 is to be installed"??? I don't
> recalling asking for
> anything but evolution to be installed. Why is it
> telling me that
> "1.0.4-1.0progeny1 is to be installed", and why
> can't it just install
> the one it needs? And what about that "Broken
> packages" messages?
>
> "OK", I think, let's try this 'dselect' thingy... I
> select "evolution",
> and all's well until I hit the "Install" command...
> suddenly it wants to
> confirm an *enourmous* list of unrelated adds,
> removals, and upgrades
> with me. ("462 packages upgraded, 122 newly
> installed, 117 to remove and
> 7 not upgraded") *Whoa*, I never asked for all
> those. I just wanted
> Evoultion. I try again with diety, same story.
>
> This is just one example. I've had the same thing
> happen trying to
> upgrade kde, or install CUPS, or Webmin, or
> stormpkg, or various others.
> Ever since the dist-upgrade, any package that isn't
> part of Progeny's
> distribution (stable, testing, or unstable) gives me
> the same kind of
> grief when I try to install or upggrade it. It's a
> different list of
> packages each time, but the same type of issues with
> apt-get, dselect,
> and deity.
>
> So, what am I doing wrong?
>
> Thanks much,
>
> Avdi B. Grimm
>
>
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