On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 01:30:34PM -0500, Marty Landman wrote: > At 01:09 PM 12/12/2005, Hodgins Family wrote: > > >I was wondering why you plunked the file into /root/deb. Why not just move > >it to /home and retry the dpkg command (as root obviously!) > > UNCLELEO:~# dpkg -i /root/debs/samba_3.0.20b-1woody1_i386.deb > Selecting previously deselected package samba. > (Reading database ... 12262 files and directories currently installed.) > Unpacking samba (from .../samba_3.0.20b-1woody1_i386.deb) ... > dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of samba: > samba depends on samba-common (= 3.0.20b-1woody1); however: > Package samba-common is not installed. [...] > Errors were encountered while processing: > samba > UNCLELEO:~# > > ............................ > > Now what? > > Marty Unfortunately, you will have to hunt down all the packages that are mentioned in the error messages. And the ones upon which those depend. And so on. Then you can either install all of them by hand or put them in one directory, go there and 'dpkg -i *.deb'. Not much fun, I'm afraid. But at least it's not any worse than using RPM. HTH, --j
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