Re: package dependencies
On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 14:22:14 -0800
Freddy Freeloader <fredddy@cableone.net> wrote:
> Tony Heal wrote:
> >
> > I have a problem. If you look below you will see that webalizer is
> > installed and has a dependency of either libgd2 or libgd2-noxpm. If
> > you look further down neither libgd2 nor libgd2-xpm are installed.
> > Apt-get –f install shows no packages in error. How can this be?
[snip]
> Hmmm.... Not sure, but if you use apt-cache show webalizer it says
> that it is dependent on either libgd2-noxpm or libgd2-xpm. It may be
> that this leaves this dependency as something you need to install on
> your own as apt-get isn't able to figure this either/or dilemma out
> on its own as this would seem to be very much an admin sort of
> decision, not an installer decision.
No way! That would result in a broken package. See Florian Kulzer's
explanation in the other mail.
Regards,
Andrei
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