Re: serious dependency problems
On Fri, 18 Jan 2002 14:40:06 -0500 sam rosenfeld <sam@wdn.com> wrote:
> I have tried unsuccessfully to install many packages and programs -- from math
> programs to pine, sawfish and libc6.2. In most cases the problem is one in
> which the 'make' closes with errors that list dependencies it could not find.
> Occasionally, and perhaps unrelated, the error message reads something like:
> expecting "fil2" and could not find the file. I take this to mean that the make
> program was not satisfied with an earlier version. The dpkg -i and apt-get
> install gives me similar problems. I am using Debian2.2r2 on a more-or-less
> standard box (AMD 400Mz chip, only linux 2.2.20, etc.)
>
> What's the best remedy?
>
> Thanks,
>
> sam
Are you trying to upgrade to a higher version of stable, or move
up to woody?
What does your sources.list look like?
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