Re: New "unstable" system, problems isntalling Gnome
On Fri, 26 Dec 2003 22:05:20 -0500, stan wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 26, 2003 at 05:16:36PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
>> On Thu, Dec 25, 2003 at 05:26:56PM -0500, stan wrote:
>> > I'm trying to help a friend build a new Debian machine. Since it's for
>> > MythTV, it needs to be an "unstabe" machine.
>>
>> Is it impossible to backport the relevant bits?
>>
>> > When I try to istall teh gnome meta package I egt unmet dependencies:
>> >
>> > Depends: gnome-office (= 42) but it is not going to be installed
>> > Depends: rhythmbox but it is not going to be installed
>> >
>> > What can I do to resolve this?
>>
>> It's probably just not installable at the moment. Look at gnome's
>> Depends: line and install everything in it apart from the above
>> individually.
>>
> How can I determine that?
Using "apt-cache show"
...and, of course, the reason it's probably not installable at the moment
is because unstable == "unstable".
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....................paul
It's working as coded.
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