On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 05:29:08AM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote:
>On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 03:38:19PM +0530, Abhishek Verma wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have Debina Unstable running on my system. I tried to upgrade the
>> system using synaptic from an official debian mirror. When I looked at
>> the list of packages to be removed/installed/upgraded, I found that
>> gnome-desktop-environment was to be removed. I thought the new version
>> might have a replacement for this, so I went ahead with the updates.
>>
>> But, now my system has no desktop environment, and when I try to install
>> gnome-desktop-environment, it says that it can't install since
>> gnomemeeting is uninstallable. When I tried to install gnomemeeting, it
>> says that it can't install because it depends on libopenh323-1.18.0
>> which is uninstallable. When I tried to look for the package libopen323
>> version 1.18.0, it is nowhere to be found. The current version available
>> for this package is 1.15.6.
>>
>> Can anybody give me some idea how should I go about installing
>> gnome-desktop-environment. Also, why are there dependcies of packages
>> that have not yet been put into the repository.
>Hi Abhishek,
>from time to time, all the required packages for (in this case) gnome
>are not avaiable when you last did a 'apt-get update'. This should be
>remidieded in the near future, this is just expected behavior for the
>unstable branch of Debian. So, wait a few days and 'apt-get update' and
>try again. For more immediate and up-to-date info, try installing
>irrsi-text or some other irc client and chat in #debian.
This particular problem seems to be related to gnomemetting requireing a
package that isn't available anymore. It's been like this for well over
a week already. Bug #353844.
I did the same thing as the original poster but I managed to get parts
back by selectively downgrading a few packages to testing.
/M
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