Re: Yet another apt/deselect question

[Martin Fluch <fluch@rock.helsinki.fi>]

On Mon, 27 Aug 2001, Paul Mackinney wrote:

> My questions are: 
> 1. Why do the unresolved dependancies prevent apt from
> updating other packages that have nothing to do with these?

apt-get will tell you why, if you force it to install it with 

    apt-get install ....

> 2. Why isn't smbfs getting installed? Since the samba-common version
> satisfies the stated dependancy, I assume that there's a package bug. No
> big deal, but dselect should install smbfs if I've forced the selection,
> right?

Same as above, try

   apt-get install smbfs

and see, what apt-get ist telling you.

Martin