Re: unstable: problems installing GNOME
On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 17:33 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
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> On 09/24/07 17:18, michael wrote:
> > On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 14:31 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> >> On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 10:27:17PM +0100, michael wrote:
> >>> On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 22:45 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> >>>> On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 15:06:02 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> >>>>> On 09/24/07 14:15, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> >>>>> [snip]
> >>>>>> 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.
> >>>>> As of now (2007-09-24 20:04 UTC), GNOME 2.20 in Sid seems totally
> >>>>> installable except for libwnck.
> >>>> But doesn't Gnome depend on that? I thought that was what the OP's
> >>>> dependency problems came down to.
> >>> It is!
> >>>
> >>>> Does he have to switch manually from
> >>>> libwnck18 to libwnck22?
> >>> I tried that but hit other problems.
> >> what problems?
> >
> >
> > python-gnome2-desktop: Depends: libwnck18
> >
> > detail below. Thanks, Michael
> >
> > ---
> > Script started on Mon 24 Sep 2007 23:15:45 BST
> > 23:15:45 ~$ sudo apt-get update
> > Password:
> >
> > 0% [Working]
> >
> > 0% [Query]
> >
> [snip]
> >
> > 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.
> > python-gnome2-desktop: Depends: libwnck18 (>= 2.18.2) but it is not
> > going to be installed
> > E: Broken packages
> > 23:17:33 ~$ exit
> >
> > Script done on Mon 24 Sep 2007 23:17:39 BST
>
> $ apt-cache policy python-gnome2-desktop
> python-gnome2-desktop:
> Installed: 2.18.0-2+b1
> Candidate: 2.18.0-2+b1
> Version table:
> *** 2.18.0-2+b1 0
> 500 ftp://mirrors.kernel.org unstable/main Packages
> 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
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>
> Are you actually running Sid?
>
I'm running unstable:
apt-cache policy python-gnome2-desktop
python-gnome2-desktop:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 2.18.0-2+b1
Version table:
2.18.0-2+b1 0
500 ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org unstable/main Packages
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