re: tasksel, first time with debian

2003-07-05 Thread Bret Comstock Waldow
On Wed, 2003-07-02 at 02:29, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > You're trying to run tasksel under those conditions? > > yep...? Is that a leading question!? Since you're installing, you might be a newbie (like me - at Debian, anyway). I've been doing ad-hoc tech support for my Dad for years, and his mo

Re: tasksel, first time with debian

2003-07-02 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 12:26, Shawn Lamson wrote: > On Sun, June 29 at 12:26 PM EDT > Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > > I get a heap of > > Depends: but it is not going to be installed > > and then finally > > E: Sorry, broken packages > > for anything I try through tasksel. > >

Re: tasksel, first time with debian

2003-07-02 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 02:21, Bob Proulx wrote: > Iain Buchanan wrote: > > Depends: but it is not going to be installed and then finally > > E: Sorry, broken packages > > for anything I try through tasksel. > > That looks like a broken /etc/apt/sources.list file. Which may have > happened if you

re: tasksel, first time with debian

2003-07-02 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 22:36, Bret Comstock Waldow wrote: > On Sat, 2003-06-28 at 22:56, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > Hi all, [snip] > Tell me if I read this right, or what's different: > > You're installing Debian from scratch, no pre-existing files. yep > You've completed the initial install, and

Re: tasksel, first time with debian

2003-06-30 Thread Bob Proulx
Iain Buchanan wrote: > Depends: but it is not going to be installed and then finally > E: Sorry, broken packages > for anything I try through tasksel. That looks like a broken /etc/apt/sources.list file. Which may have happened if you edited the file and made a typo or possibly if you had a prob

re: tasksel, first time with debian

2003-06-30 Thread Bret Comstock Waldow
On Sat, 2003-06-28 at 22:56, Iain Buchanan wrote: > Hi all, > I'm having some trouble getting tasksel to install packages past the > base system. I'm not new to linux, (bsd, redhat) but I'm new to > debian. I'm assuming the problem is not with taskel itself, but rather > with some dependencies o

Re: tasksel, first time with debian

2003-06-30 Thread Shawn Lamson
On Sun, June 29 at 12:26 PM EDT Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > I'm having some trouble getting tasksel to install packages past the > base system. I'm not new to linux, (bsd, redhat) but I'm new to > debian. I'm assuming the problem is not with taskel itself, but > rather w

re: tasksel, first time with debian

2003-06-29 Thread Iain Buchanan
Hi all, I'm having some trouble getting tasksel to install packages past the base system. I'm not new to linux, (bsd, redhat) but I'm new to debian. I'm assuming the problem is not with taskel itself, but rather with some dependencies or broken packages, but I don't know quite how to interpret th