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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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