Fwd: Re: apt-get -t unstable install gnome fails with unmet dependencies
--- Adam <ack94598@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 21:00:18 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Adam <ack94598@yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: apt-get -t unstable install gnome fails with unmet
> dependencies
> To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
>
> OP: usually apt will
> tell you what exactly are the unmet dependencies, just try to
> install
> them directly along with gnome or reporting the exact error message.
>
> The exact output is:
>
> linux:~# apt-get -t unstable install gnome
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
> requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
> distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
> or been moved out of Incoming.
>
> Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely
> that
> the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
> that package should be filed.
> The following information may help to resolve the situation:
>
> Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
> gnome: Depends: gnome-core (= 30) but it is not going to be
> installed
> E: Sorry, broken packages
>
> This is on the machine I installed gnome on previously, so many of
> the
> dependencies are already installed. The machine I wanted to install
> gnome on has none of the dependencies and the error output complains
> about _all_ of them. As noted in my other reply, installing them all
> by hand is really out of the question.
>
> Adan
>
>
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