The package xbase-utils does not exist. Do you perhaps mean xbase-clients?
yeah, i guess it must have been xbase-clients, sorry.
> overwrite man pages belonging to other programs which were presumably > packaged separately in previous releases (like "oclock"), and so The package oclock does not exist in Sarge, nor in Etch. Of course Debian cannot guarantee clean upgrades for packages that are not in Debian.
that explains that. over a year ago when i got this machine i installed Ubuntu on it b/c it's a handheld and there weren't installation instructions available for Debian for this hardware. Then after the basic stuff was running I switched it over to Debian. I suppose some of the X-windows stuff was still Ubuntu, unbeknownst to me.
I had similar problems with a different machine (clean debian install) in terms of having to manually tell aptitude which packages to upgrade so that it wouldn't balk at installing xorg (the first problem i mentioned in the bug report). but i guess this "oclock" etc stuff (the second problem) must have been leftover from ubuntu. maybe the font stuff (the third problem) was from that too.
thank you, bayle
From: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> Reply-To: 408034@bugs.debian.org To: Baylis Shanks <bshanks3@hotmail.com>, 408034@bugs.debian.org Subject: Re: Bug#408034: 3 upgrade problems to xorg 7 Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 21:22:59 +0100 On Tuesday 23 January 2007 02:43, Baylis Shanks wrote: > Second, package installation failed. xbase-utils kept wanting to The package xbase-utils does not exist. Do you perhaps mean xbase-clients? > overwrite man pages belonging to other programs which were presumably > packaged separately in previous releases (like "oclock"), and so The package oclock does not exist in Sarge, nor in Etch. Of course Debian cannot guarantee clean upgrades for packages that are not in Debian. If you have any packages that _are_ in Debian and that had this problem, please let us know. Cheers, FJP
<< attach3 >>
_________________________________________________________________Laugh, share and connect with Windows Live Messenger http://clk.atdmt.com/MSN/go/msnnkwme0020000001msn/direct/01/?href=http://imagine-msn.com/messenger/launch80/default.aspx?locale=en-us&source=hmtagline