Re: Question on dependencies

[Reid Gilman <blueplazma@attbi.com>]

The exact error message is:
     apt-get install xxxxx
     Reading Package Lists... Done     
     Building Dependency Tree... Done
     You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these: (I've tried it)
     Sorry, but the following packages have unment dependencies:
       zlib1: Depends: libc5 (>= 5.4.0-0) but it is not going to be installed
       zlib1-altdev: Depends: libc5-altdev but it is not going to be installed.
     E: Unmet dependencies.  Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution)          
     

On Tue, 2002-06-25 at 13:28, Mike Dresser wrote:
> > Um, that looks risky. Wouldn't it be safer to rebuild the lilo package
> > from woody on a potato system so that it will actually have satisfied
> > dependencies?
>
> Yes.  This was done to fix a problem with drives over 32gb on an older
> machine that accepted it in the bios, but lilo didn't work on.
>
> > apt-get considers unsatisfied dependencies on a system to be very bad.
>
> I consider not being able to install the ssh update to be very bad ;)
>
> I'll grab the .deb and do the uninstall/upgrade/reinstall route.
>
>
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