Re: I messed up apt-get -- help!

2004-03-04 Thread test524
Hmm. I tried apt-get install kdebase, which gives me: Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: kdebase: Depends: kdelibs3 (>= 4:2.2.2-1) but it is not going to be installed Depends: libkonq3 (>= 4:2.2.2-14.7) but it is not going to be installed Depends: k

Re: I messed up apt-get -- help!

2004-03-04 Thread Stephen Patterson
On Thu, 04 Mar 2004 06:20:04 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Trouble is, I can't now install the regular woody version of KDE. [snip] > I'm not really sure how I got into this rut, but I'd welcome with open arms any > suggestions on how to get out. After setting sources.list right, I'd suggest

Re: I messed up apt-get -- help!

2004-03-03 Thread dmu2201
This is propably due to a large amount of unresolved dependencies. I've tried similar when trying to install and "old" package in a "new" system. The old package want'ed to downgrade a lot of other packages and all of h*ll broke loose... I've solved the dependencies problem by calling apt-get -f

I messed up apt-get -- help!

2004-03-03 Thread test524
Hello all, I've managed to badly screw up apt-get by going from KDE 2.2 in woody to a KDE 3.2 woody backport. Shame on me, but now I've uninstalled the 3.2 backport and reset my sources.list to have the following (uncommented) lines: deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stable main deb-src http

Re: apt-get help

2001-09-29 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
shock wrote: okay, i marked perl and perl-base as 'hold', then did apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade with the same results. i'm stumped. Take a look at the man entry for "apt-get --fix-broken." You could try: dpkg --remove perl perl-base perl-modules apt-get install perl perl-base pe

Re: apt-get help

2001-09-28 Thread shock
On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, Jerome Acks Jr wrote: > > > I usually do it this way: > As root, run dselect. When you get the menu, do an [U]pdate. Then do > [S]elect and search for the perl and perl-base packages. When the > package name is high-lighted, type "=". You can then quit dselect and > try runnin

Re: apt-get help

2001-09-28 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
shock wrote: On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, Jerome Acks Jr wrote: Do you mean that installing any package fails because apt-get first tries to install perl and perl-base and stops at that point? If that is the case, you may want to put these packages on hold, and then run apt-get again to install the oth

Re: apt-get help

2001-09-28 Thread shock
On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, Jerome Acks Jr wrote: > > Do you mean that installing any package fails because apt-get first > tries to install perl and perl-base and stops at that point? If that is > the case, you may want to put these packages on hold, and then run > apt-get again to install the other pack

Re: apt-get help

2001-09-28 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
shock wrote: i am sorry to keep asking, but i cannot find a solution for this. i have a machine running woody. i hadn't updated it in a while, so a few days ago, i did an apt-get update, apt-get upgrade on it. here's the results. this happens any time i try to install any package with apt-get

Re: apt-get help

2001-09-28 Thread Timeboy
Subject: Re: apt-get help On Friday Sep 28 17:22 shock wrote: > ** i am sorry to keep asking, but i cannot find a solution for this. i have > ** a machine running woody. i hadn't updated it in a while, so a few > ** days ago, i did an apt-get update, apt-get

apt-get help

2001-09-28 Thread shock
i am sorry to keep asking, but i cannot find a solution for this. i have a machine running woody. i hadn't updated it in a while, so a few days ago, i did an apt-get update, apt-get upgrade on it. here's the results. this happens any time i try to install any package with apt-get, so until i ge

Re: more apt-get help please??

2000-12-15 Thread Chris Gray
> Xucaen writes: x> --- Chris Gray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> > Xucaen writes: x> what is the syntax for the sources.list? >>> and what x> is apt.conf used for anyways? >>> >>> $ man 5 sources.list >>> $ man 5 apt.conf >>> >>> Look especially

Re: more apt-get help please??

2000-12-15 Thread Xucaen
--- Chris Gray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Xucaen writes: > x> what is the syntax for the sources.list? > and what > x> is apt.conf used for anyways? > > $ man 5 sources.list > $ man 5 apt.conf > > Look especially at the examples in > sources.list(5). well, there's the catch. I

Re: more apt-get help please??

2000-12-15 Thread Chris Gray
> Xucaen writes: x> --- will trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> try >>> http://www.eGroups.com/files/newbieDoc/ >>> >>> the "apt-get-intro.html" file there may be it. >>> that's one i've hobbled together and got mostly >>> good feedback on. it's mostly a

Re: more apt-get help please??

2000-12-15 Thread Xucaen
--- will trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > try > http://www.eGroups.com/files/newbieDoc/ > > the "apt-get-intro.html" file there may be it. > that's one i've hobbled together and got mostly > good feedback on. it's mostly a > scratch-the-surface > kind of thing, but it might be what you

Re: more apt-get help please??

2000-12-14 Thread will trillich
On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 07:14:50PM -0800, Xucaen wrote: > HI all. The other day someone posted info about > apt-get. welp, in all my debian excitement I've > misplaced it somewhere... I have looked all over > the debian web site but couldn't find any info on > how to set up apt-get. (I know I saw i

more apt-get help please??

2000-12-14 Thread Xucaen
HI all. The other day someone posted info about apt-get. welp, in all my debian excitement I've misplaced it somewhere... I have looked all over the debian web site but couldn't find any info on how to set up apt-get. (I know I saw it somewhere..) anyways, if anyone can point me to where some info

Re: apt-get help

2000-08-15 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
I would say that probably you ran dselect first, and that package got selected. The easiest way would be to start dselect , then find "exim" with / exim Enter and unistall it. Ted Roden wrote: > this is a pretty dumb question, but its driving me > crazy... > > I'm trying to install software with

Re: apt-get help

2000-08-14 Thread Ron Rademaker
Did you try: apt-get -f install, as it says?? It looks like you got exim installed, exim depends on some stuff and this is giving trouble... Ron Rademaker On Mon, 14 Aug 2000, Ted Roden wrote: > this is a pretty dumb question, but its driving me > crazy... > > I'm trying to install software wi

apt-get help

2000-08-14 Thread Ted Roden
this is a pretty dumb question, but its driving me crazy... I'm trying to install software with apt-get and i'm getting errors for packages I didn't try to install. Not the dependancies of the package i want, but a totally unrelated package... ie: $ apt-get install lynx Reading Page lists... Don

I can't apt-get.. help me.

1999-12-23 Thread generoso
I installed debian packages using apt-get over the network. I'm running debian 2.0 on i386 machine. A few weeks ago I upgraded kernel upto 2.2.13 and upgraded some packages in potato. After that apt-get causes segmentation-fault. I always get message "Electric Fence 2.0.5..", maybe I installed ke

Problem with apt-get. Help please, I'm in over my head...

1999-06-11 Thread Jonathan Lupa
I'm hoping someone out there will have a better idea than me where to look for a solution to this, but in a nutshell: The short version: Since I reinstalled/repartitioned/moved the kernel to 2.2.9, apt-get has been stalling indefinitely as it downloads anything from a resource listed in m