problem installing eclipse

[Pedro Quaresma de Almeida <pedro@mat.uc.pt>]

quirin writes:
 > i can't apt-get eclipse :(
 > 
 > 
 > output:
 > 
 > bigfatmama:/home/quirin# apt-get install eclipse-platform
 > 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:
 > 
 > The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 >   eclipse-platform: Depends: j2re1.4 but it is not installable or
 >                              j2re1.3 but it is not installable or
 >                              java2-runtime but it is not installable
 > E: Broken packages
 > 
 > any1 got an idea?
 > 
 > q
 > 

First make an "apt-get update", if that does not solve the problem try to
install what it wants first.

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Pedro Quaresma de Almeida
e-mail: pedro@mat.uc.pt