Re: apt-get error message seems contradictory

2009-09-08 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sat, Sep 05, 2009 at 07:54:18PM +0800, Gero Putzar was heard to say: > So "A: Breaks: B" is meant to read as "A would break B if it was going to be > installed". I interpreted the "Breaks:" as "does not comply with the need > for the following dependency". That message just lists the depend

Re: apt-get error message seems contradictory

2009-09-05 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat,05.Sep.09, 19:54:18, Gero Putzar wrote: > > I tried to install the package "shutter" from testing on my stable distro. I > included the testing repositories in the apt-sources list and set > APT::Default-Release "lenny"; Be careful with that, due to a long-standing bug in apt codenames are

Re: apt-get error message seems contradictory

2009-09-05 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-09-05 06:54, Gero Putzar wrote: Thank you very much for your help! @ Brian: So "A: Breaks: B" is meant to read as "A would break B if it was going to be installed". I interpreted the "Breaks:" as "does not comply with the need for the following dependency". Well, I'm not a native spea

RE: apt-get error message seems contradictory

2009-09-05 Thread Gero Putzar
Thank you very much for your help! @ Brian: So "A: Breaks: B" is meant to read as "A would break B if it was going to be installed". I interpreted the "Breaks:" as "does not comply with the need for the following dependency". Well, I'm not a native speaker. So maybe I should not complain about

Re: apt-get error message seems contradictory

2009-09-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-09-04 23:03, Gero Putzar wrote: Hi, I get the following error message from apt-get: ---snip--- The following packages have unmet dependencies: libc6-i386: Breaks: lib32asound2 (<= 1.0.20-2) but 1.0.16-2 is to be installed Breaks: lib32gcc1 (<= 1:4.4.0-6) but 1:4.3.2-1.1

Re: apt-get error message seems contradictory

2009-09-04 Thread Brian Marshall
On Sat, Sep 05, 2009 at 12:03:37PM +0800, Gero Putzar wrote: > Hi, > > I get the following error message from apt-get: > > ---snip--- > The following packages have unmet dependencies: > libc6-i386: Breaks: lib32asound2 (<= 1.0.20-2) but 1.0.16-2 is to be > installed > Breaks: lib3

Re: apt-get error message

2003-06-07 Thread Ben Kal
On 6 Jun 2003 Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Thu, 2003-06-05 at 13:05, Ben Kal wrote: >> On 4 Jun 2003 Rick Pasotto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > When I 'apt-get install' a package I have been getting the following error >> > message: >> > >> > Retrieving bug reports... Done >> >

Re: apt-get error message

2003-06-06 Thread Ben Kal
On 4 Jun 2003 Rick Pasotto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When I 'apt-get install' a package I have been getting the following error > message: > > Retrieving bug reports... Done > dpkg-deb: wait for tar failed: No child processes Traceback (most recent > call last): > File "/usr/bin/apt-listchang

Re: apt-get error message

2003-06-06 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, 2003-06-05 at 13:05, Ben Kal wrote: > On 4 Jun 2003 Rick Pasotto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > When I 'apt-get install' a package I have been getting the following error > > message: > > > > Retrieving bug reports... Done > > dpkg-deb: wait for tar failed: No child processes Traceback (

Re: apt-get error message

2002-11-27 Thread Ing. Vladimir M. Kerka
Extracted from: http://katspace.net/computers/linux_tips.txt "This happened because Debian is so big now, that once I started listing multiple sources, it couldn't cope with them all with its default settings for its Dynamic MMap (which stands for Dynamic Memory Map I think). The way this gets fix