Re: apt-get dist-upgrade, now gnome session fails to login
On Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 02:38:52PM -0400, Marc Shapiro wrote:
> After I added unstable to my sources.list and did an update, I then did
> apt-get -u install gnome-core. This gave me errors about KDE requiring
> kdebase-audiolibs (why are KDE dependancies being mentioned when I only
> asked to install gnome-core) and also a dependancy on gedit.
[snip] A complete transcript would still be useful.
> I added those dependancies to my apt-get install command and received
> a message about other unmet dependancies. This continued through
> several more rounds of adding dependancies as hey came up (I thought
> that apt-get was supposed to deal with all of this dependancy stuff)
IME, if apt-get is doing that it means you need to run 'apt-get -f
install' and deal with any problems there *first*. But then, I use
dselect for anything complicated ...
Cheers,
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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