On Thu, 2001-08-30 at 21:55, der.hans wrote: > Am 29. Aug, 2001 schwäzte Paul D. Smith so: > > > I don't really understand some of these messages; for example > > libgtk-perl says it depends on libgtk1.2 >= 1.2.0 but 1.2.10-1 is to be > > installed... well, 1.2.10-1 _is_ >= 1.2.0, isn't it?
Perhaps manually installing the libgtk1.2 first will alleviate your problem. > > I've been getting a lot of that the last few days as well. Haven't had the > chance to investigate the problem, though. > > Today I had one need =x.y.z, but x.y.x-4 was installed. The way I understand > it x.y.z-4 is x.y.z, but the 4th release of that version as a deb. > > All of the systems with these probs are testing. At least two of them had a > smattering from unstable ( konqueror and php4-pgsql ). Apt is doing it's job x.y.z != x.y.z-4 and your package insists on = x.y.z, not >= x.y.z. Testing is going to give you problems like this from time to time (at least when I ran it before I moved to unstable). --mike