Re: apt-get isn't doing what I think it's supposed to

[Jeremy Petzold <jpetzold@earthlink.net>]

On Saturday, April 26, 2003, at 11:42 PM, Rodney D. Myers wrote:

> I'm trying to install glitter (the news reader) on my new system. It
> complains about not having gnome-libs, which is fine, as I did not
> install gnome.
>
> So I "su -", and attempted to do the following;
>
> apt-get install gnome-libs
>
> and I get the following;
>
> apt-get install gnome-libs
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> E: Couldn't find package gnome-libs
do this:

apt-cache search gnome-lib

that will return a list of installable packages. the problem is that 
the name you gave apt does not match any names in the Data Base.what I 
typed aove lets you search for packages that nearly match what you 
query. you might get a lot.

what I would suggest is to just install gnome with an

apt-get install gnome

then you get the libs you need.

also, you might want to send an e-mail to the maintianer to see why 
they did not include the gnome libs in the dependancy resolution 
(unless you are running unstable which has  quite a few unfinished 
packages.