Re: Question on dependencies

2002-06-25 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 03:11:24PM -0400, Mike Dresser wrote: > On Tue, 25 Jun 2002, Colin Watson wrote: > > So ... what does 'apt-get -f install' say? > > And I replied to a thread that isn't mine anymore =) > > pellusbackup:~# apt-get -f install > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Depend

Re: Question on dependencies

2002-06-25 Thread Mike Dresser
On Tue, 25 Jun 2002, Colin Watson wrote: > So ... what does 'apt-get -f install' say? > > -- > Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] And I replied to a thread that isn't mine anymore =) pellusbackup:~# apt-get -f install Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependen

Re: Question on dependencies

2002-06-25 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 02:02:35PM -0400, Reid Gilman wrote: > The exact error message is: (I think you appended this to the wrong thread, but anyway.) > apt-get install x > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > You might want to run 'apt-

Re: Question on dependencies

2002-06-25 Thread Reid Gilman
The exact error message is: apt-get install x Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these: (I've tried it) Sorry, but the following packages have unment dependencies:    zl

Re: Question on dependencies

2002-06-25 Thread Colin Watson
[No need to cc me, I read the list.] On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 01:28:34PM -0400, Mike Dresser wrote: > Colin Watson wrote: > > Um, that looks risky. Wouldn't it be safer to rebuild the lilo package > > from woody on a potato system so that it will actually have satisfied > > dependencies? > > Yes.

Re: Question on dependencies

2002-06-25 Thread Mike Dresser
> Um, that looks risky. Wouldn't it be safer to rebuild the lilo package > from woody on a potato system so that it will actually have satisfied > dependencies? Yes. This was done to fix a problem with drives over 32gb on an older machine that accepted it in the bios, but lilo didn't work on. >

Re: Question on dependencies

2002-06-25 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 12:01:05PM -0400, Mike Dresser wrote: > I'm doing the ssh updates on a potato machine here, and running into > problems, due to having to use lilo out of woody. > > pellusbackup:~# apt-get install ssh > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > You