Re: unstable: problems installing GNOME
On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 19:41:19 +0100, michael wrote:
> Something I upgraded this w/end appeared to cause GNOME or xorg (X?) to
> hang frequently so I attempted a new install of GNOME and all was going
> well until the below which I can't work out how to progress past - all
> ideas welcome. Thanks, Michael
>
> Script started on Mon 24 Sep 2007 19:37:02 BST
> 19:37:02 ~$ sudo apt-get update
[ snip: no problem so far... ]
> 19:37:13 ~$ sudo install gnome-core
[...]
> The following packages have unmet dependencies.
> gnome-core: Depends: gedit (>= 2.18.1) but it is not going to be
> installed
> Depends: gnome-applets (>= 2.18.0) but it is not going to be
> installed
> E: Broken packages
> 19:37:23 ~$ sudo apt-get install gedit
[...]
> gedit: Depends: python-gnome2-desktop (>= 2.15.90) but it is not going to
> be installed
> E: Broken packages
> 19:37:31 ~$ sudo apt-get install python-gnome2-desktop
[...]
> python-gnome2-desktop: Depends: libwnck18 (>= 2.18.2) but it is not going
> to be installed
> E: Broken packages
> 19:37:42 ~$ sudo apt-get install libwnck18
[...]
> libwnck18: Depends: libwnck-common (< 2.19) but 2.20.0-1 is to be
> installed
> E: Broken packages
> 19:38:03 ~$ exit
>
> Script done on Mon 24 Sep 2007 19:38:09 BST
The first Gnome 2.20 packages have entered unstable; the current mix of
version 2.18 and 2.20 does not seem to be installable.
However, right now it might still be enough to simply add a "testing"
repository to your sources.list. Apt should be able to pull in the
missing 2.18 packages from Lenny.
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