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E.g. apt-get install xmms: <blabla>, then says that 4 new packages must be installed, these are libglib1.2, libgtk1.2, xmms and (I don't remember) <blabla>, then the last line is 99% [Working] That's all.Eventually I figured the problem is that the packages apt-get hangs on are those that are just not in the testing repository! On navigating the web browser to the lib packages directory, I can find libglib2.0 and libgtk2.0, but no 1.2 versions. Seems like there is some problem!? But isn't apt-get supposed to get the dependencies right?Yeah, that's why I reminded you to apt-get update, so that your list of available packages really reflected what was on the server. I've just downloaded them from http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/gtk+1.2/libgtk1.2_1.2.10-18_i386.deb and http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/glib1.2/libglib1.2_1.2.10-10.1_i386.deb Perhaps your mirror is screwed? T.
Sorry, I was wrong. The mirror is ok. Just for some reason unknown to me apt-get (and aptitude) doesn't manage to get certain packages. apt-get (aptitude) update/clean/autoclean/dist-upgrade/check makes no difference.
What now? Thanks...