Re: can't install anything from testing

[Andreas Berglund <andreas.berglund@home.se>]

Andrei Popescu wrote:
> Andreas Berglund <andreas.berglund@home.se> wrote:
>
>
> > Christian Pinedo Zamalloa wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 07:39:34PM +0200, Andreas Berglund wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > > Hi!
> > > > I recently reinstalled debian stable on my box, but I would like to run 
> > > > some packages from testing. But after the reinstall I can't install 
> > > > anything from the testing repository, I get messages of dependencies 
> > > > that can't be met for everything. I have searched google and the man 
> > > > pages for apt-* and dpkg for a clue but I havent found anything. Does 
> > > > anyone now what's going on on or where I should look for a solution?
> > > >
> > > > Andreas Berglund
> > >
> > >
> > > In http://www.debian.org/doc you have the APT HOWTO and there is is
> > > esplained how to merge different repositories in a Debian box. 
> >
> >
> > Yes I know, I have read it. The problem is I'm following the 
> > instructions in that document, and installing packages from testing used 
> >  to work without a hitch before my reinstall with the same settings as 
> > I have now.
>
>
> Maybe you should post an example output.

This is the output I get when running "apt-get -t testing install 
openoffice.org"

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:
  openoffice.org: Depends: openoffice.org-core (= 2.0.3-6) but it is 
not going to be installed
                  Depends: openoffice.org-writer but it is not going to 
be installed
                  Depends: openoffice.org-calc but it is not going to 
be installed
                  Depends: openoffice.org-impress but it is not going 
to be installed
                  Depends: openoffice.org-draw but it is not going to 
be installed
                  Depends: openoffice.org-math but it is not going to 
be installed
                  Depends: openoffice.org-base but it is not going to 
be installed
E: Broken packages


regards
Andreas