Re: apt-get doesn't follow dependencies

[David Garamond <lists@zara.6.isreserved.com>]

Hanspeter Kunz wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 11:56 +0700, David Garamond wrote:
>
> > I tried doing a fresh Sarge install from 25-Jan-2005 Sarge CD ISO. The 
> > resulting apt-get behaves strangely; it doesn't follow dependencies 
> > automatically (i.e., when I want to install package P and it depends on 
> > Q, apt-get doesn't download & install Q but instead exit with error). 
>
> You should send the (complete) error message.

So sorry, I didn't record the original error message. But I remember it 
is something along the line of:

 Package P depends on Q, but it is not going to be installed

So I had to issue "apt-get install P Q" to install P. Now installing 
Gnome is impossible this way because there are 100's of packages and 
there are so many interpendencies going on.

I also tried using tasksel and check [x] Desktop Environment, but 
apt-get also failed with the same error message (it couldn't 
automatically install all dependencies).

Finally I reinstalled using Woody CD and then upgraded to Sarge using 
"apt-get dist-upgrade". All is well. But I wonder what happened with the 
Sarge installer I used.

> > How do I configure apt-get to behave like it usually does?

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dave