On Wed, 7 Jul 2004 11:29:50 -0700 Paul Yeatman <pyeatman@ucsd.edu> wrote: > > Hi, for anyone running Sarge, the "acme" package was a cool new feature > to me that allowed you to set up "multimedia keys" on whatever keyboard > one has. Starting with updates a couple weeks ago, "acme" now > conflicts with "gnome" and other foundational gnome packages. > Eventhough initially gnome and acme were installed together, apparently > now they can't be. Just curious if anyone knows anything about this? You can usually figure this out yourself with a little iterative use of apt-get. e.g. if you try "apt-get install foo" and it tries to remove bar, following that up with "apt-get install foo bar" will tell you where the conflict is. Sometimes you have to go a few times in, e.g. "apt-get foo bar" responds by trying to remove baz, so you have to do a "apt-get foo bar baz". But eventually you can see what the complaint is. You failed to include a transcript of your attempt at installation, but a qucick look at acme on packages.debian.org shows that it appears to depend on GNOME-ish libraries that are all present in current-enough versions on sarge. Are you sure it's conflicting with GNOME? Or is it simply trying to remove meta-packages that don't have any actual contents, like the packages "gnome" and "gnome-desktop-environment"? -c -- Chris Metzler cmetzler@speakeasy.snip-me.net (remove "snip-me." to email) "As a child I understood how to give; I have forgotten this grace since I have become civilized." - Chief Luther Standing Bear
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