Re: apt-get install aspell fails?
> On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 07:50:45PM -0500 or thereabouts, Michael B Allen wrote:
>> Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
>> aspell-bin: Depends: libaspell15 (>= 0.50.3-1) but it is not going to be
>> installed
>> Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-4)
>>
>> Oops. It looks like these are newer packages. Where oh where can I find woody
>> only
>> aspell packages?!
>
> As I said earlier, use a backport. That's the whole idea, so you can use
> newer packages with - in this case Stable.
I found a suitable set of packages.
I'm a little shocked that debian would let this sort of thing happen though. How
frequently do depencies break like this? This is really bad IMO.
Thanks,
Mike
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