Re: Dependencies of the Damned!
On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 10:41:43PM -0500, Carl Fink wrote:
> I'm trying to install the newest avidemux (2.0.20) on my Testing system.
> Since Christian Marillat hasn't built a .deb of it, I have to build it.
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> Can't be installed because it depends on libxrender1.1, which isn't going to
> be installed. Continuing out of sheer stubbornness:
>
> apt-get install libxrender1.1
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> libxrender1 mozilla-browser mozilla-firebird mozilla-psm snd
And now you see why all that other stuff had to be removed. It depends on
libxrender1, and you're trying to install libxrender1.1...
> This just doesn't look optimal.
It's doing exactly what you told it to do. Since you asked for a single
package install, apt assumes you know exactly what you're doing.
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