KDE installation broken?

2003-09-21 Thread Bradley Alexander
I tried to install kde 3 on my sid system and found that it is broken in sid and woody: [defiant /]# apt-get install kde Reading Pacage Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are u

Re: Installation Broken!!

2001-12-07 Thread Ian Chilton
Hello, I found a mail in the archive and deleted /target/var/apt/* and it seems to be working now. Perhaps this issue needs addressing :-) Also after mailing to the lists, I got this: Dec 07 Security-Embrat ( 60) [Abuse #54043] Installation Broken!! What is it? Thanks Ian

Installation Broken!!

2001-12-07 Thread Ian Chilton
whichever mirror I point it to and whether I use FTP or HTTP, I get this: Malformed release file ftp://ftp.us.debian.org:21/debian/dists/woody/Release If I ALT-F2, I can ping ftp.us.debian.org fine. Is the woody installation broken? Thanks Ian

postfix installation broken

2000-12-28 Thread ocorrain
Hey all-- I tried to replace slink exim with potato postfix using apt-get install postfix. The installer downloads the relevant debs, then breaks down with: -- Setting up postfix (0.0.19991231pl05-2) ... dhelp_parse: You can add only directories under /usr/doc! dpkg: error processin