Re: unstable: problems installing GNOME

[michael <cs@networkingnewsletter.org.uk>]

On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 10:43 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 23:18:50 +0100, 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:
> 
> [...]
> 
> > > > > 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
> 
> Can you post the output of:
> 
> apt-cache policy libwnck18

10:03:52 ~$ apt-cache policy libwnck18
libwnck18:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 2.18.3-1
  Version table:
     2.18.3-1 0
        500 ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org unstable/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
10:03:54 ~$ 



> If you have aptitude installed then you could furthermore try this:
> 
> aptitude why-not libwnck18
> 

10:04:25 ~$ sudo aptitude why-not libwnck18
No justification for removing libwnck18 could be constructed.
10:04:33 ~$ 

NB Don't forget my motive is to install gnome-core and I then got into
problems with libwnck 

Michael