Re: emacs not installable

2008-08-21 Thread Nishita Desai
On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 1:32 AM, Eric Gerlach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Try adding a line like: > > deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian etch main > > then run "aptitude update" and try it again. That did it! Thanks a LOT. Nishita -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subje

Re: emacs not installable

2008-08-21 Thread Felipe Gallois
On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 17:02, Eric Gerlach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > > Nishita Desai wrote: > >> On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 12:43 AM, Sven Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> On 2008-08-21 21:04 +0200, Nishita Desai wrote: >>> How does your sources.list look? >>> >> >> sources.list: >> >>

Re: emacs not installable

2008-08-21 Thread Eric Gerlach
Nishita Desai wrote: On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 12:43 AM, Sven Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 2008-08-21 21:04 +0200, Nishita Desai wrote: How does your sources.list look? sources.list: # # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r4a _Etch_ - Official i386 CD Binary-1 20080803-21:07]/ etch cont

Re: emacs not installable

2008-08-21 Thread Felipe Gallois
On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 16:20, Nishita Desai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 12:43 AM, Sven Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 2008-08-21 21:04 +0200, Nishita Desai wrote: > > How does your sources.list look? > > sources.list: > > # > # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r

Re: emacs not installable

2008-08-21 Thread Nishita Desai
On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 12:43 AM, Sven Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2008-08-21 21:04 +0200, Nishita Desai wrote: > How does your sources.list look? sources.list: # # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r4a _Etch_ - Official i386 CD Binary-1 20080803-21:07]/ etch contrib main # deb cdrom:[

Re: emacs not installable

2008-08-21 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-08-21 21:15 +0200, Luca Bruno wrote: > Try installing emacs22-gtk. That package does not exist in Etch. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

emacs not installable

2008-08-21 Thread Nishita Desai
-- Forwarded message -- From: Nishita Desai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 12:45 AM Subject: Re: emacs not installable To: Felipe Gallois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 12:39 AM, Felipe Gallois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >

Re: emacs not installable

2008-08-21 Thread Luca Bruno
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:34:55 +0530 "Nishita Desai" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm tring to install Emacs on Debian 4.0r4. Here's what apt-get gives me: > > ff9:/home/nishita# apt-get install emacs > Reading package lists... Done > Build

Re: emacs not installable

2008-08-21 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-08-21 21:04 +0200, Nishita Desai wrote: > Hello, > > I'm tring to install Emacs on Debian 4.0r4. Here's what apt-get gives me: I recommend aptitude instead of apt-get, it produces much better error messages. > ff9:/home/nishita# apt-get install emacs > Reading package lists... Done > Bui

emacs not installable

2008-08-21 Thread Nishita Desai
Hello, I'm tring to install Emacs on Debian 4.0r4. Here's what apt-get gives me: ff9:/home/nishita# apt-get install emacs Reading package 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 ar