Jeroen Brandwijk wrote:
wiske:~# apt-get install elinks 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: elinks: Depends: libperl5.8 (>= 5.8.4) but it is not going to be installed E: Broken packages wiske:/home/jeroen-test# reportbug `apt-get install elinks` E: Broken packages bash: reportbug: command not found
Problem unreproducible on unstable machine. $wajig install elinks Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Suggested packages: smbclient The following NEW packages will be installed: elinks 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 822 not upgraded. Need to get 1341kB of archives. After unpacking 3383kB of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 http://ftp.us.debian.org sid/main elinks 0.10.6-1 [1341kB] Fetched 1341kB in 3s (438kB/s) Reading package fields... Done Reading package status... Done Retrieving bug reports... Done Selecting previously deselected package elinks. (Reading database ... 264793 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking elinks (from .../elinks_0.10.6-1_i386.deb) ... Setting up elinks (0.10.6-1) ... hth raju -- http://kamaraju.googlepages.com/cornell-bazaar http://groups.google.com/group/cornell-bazaar/about