Sounds like someone disobeyed the XFree86 maintainer when he said
not to build packages against the beta packages of XFree86 4. They
are on www.debian.org/~branden if you are willing to upgrade. If you
don't want to upgrade, you can just try and get the stuff you need
for gnome manually.
Greg
* Joel Dinel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> I havn't been able to install Helix-Gnome in a while ...
>
> apt-get install task-helix-gnome
> - SNIP SNIP -
>
> Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
> task-helix-gnome: Depends: task-helix-core but it is not going to be
> installedE: Sorry, broken packages
>
> Ok ... so :
>
> apt-get install task-helix-core
> - SNIP SNIP -
>
> Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
> task-helix-core: Depends: grdb but it is not going to be installed
> E: Sorry, broken packages
>
> Er ...
>
> dimmu:~# apt-get install grdb
> - SNIP SNIP -
>
> Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
> grdb: Depends: xlibs (>= 4.0.1-0) but it is not installable
> E: Sorry, broken packages
>
> Wise guy, huh ?
>
> dimmu:~# apt-get install xlibs
> - SNIP SNIP -
> Package xlibs has no available version, but exists in the database.
> This typically means that the package was mentioned in a dependency and
> never uploaded, has been obsoleted or is not available with the contents
> of sources.list
> E: Package xlibs has no installation candidate
>
> Ok. The Debian package page says XLIBS doesn't exist. How do I get Helix
> Gnome now ?
>
> Thanks !
>
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>
> Joel Dinel
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>
>
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