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Re: apt-get/xscreensaver problem



On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 10:10, Piers Kittel wrote:
> Marc,
> 
>  > The unofficial package 'fireflies' is flawed.  This is not Debian's
>  > fault. Remove it.  It is not the responsibility of an official package
>  > to attempt to avoid conflicts with some hacked up unofficial package.
> 
> desire:~# apt-get remove --purge fireflies
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these:
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>    xscreensaver: Depends: xscreensaver-gnome (= 4.05-10woody1) or
>                           xscreensaver-nognome (= 4.05-10woody1)
>    xscreensaver-gnome: Depends: xscreensaver (> 4.09-3) but 
> 4.05-10woody1 is to be installed
> E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or 
> specify a solution).
> desire:~#

Your xscreensaver appears to be from the gnome2.2 backport for woody. 
Either add the backport lines back into sources.list and run 'apt-get
update && apt-get -f install', or remove xscreensaver and install the
non-backport version.

Jamie  

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