On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 11:48:49AM -0800, Jeff Bailey wrote: > When recently running 'debfoster -u gnome', I got the following: > > Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have > requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable > distribution that some required packages have not yet been created > or been moved out of Incoming. > The following information may help to resolve the situation: > > Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: > imagemagick: Depends: libmagick5.5.1 (= 4:5.5.1.3-2) but it is not going to > be installed > E: Sorry, broken packages
Looks like your dependencies were broken at the time you tried to use debfoster. Since debfoster uses apt-get as a back-end by default, this is most probably an apt-get issue. > However, I can install imagemagick by hand: > > desert:/home/jeffb# apt-get install imagemagick > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > The following extra packages will be installed: > libmagick5.5.1 libpng12-0 > The following packages will be REMOVED: > libmagick5 > The following NEW packages will be installed: > libmagick5.5.1 libpng12-0 > 1 packages upgraded, 2 newly installed, 1 to remove and 200 not upgraded. > Need to get 2313kB of archives. After unpacking 352kB will be used. Did debfoster work afterwards? > I suspect debfoster should be able to cope with the remove and replace > of a depended on library. I suspect that the actual apt-get call that debfoster issues didn't have something to do with imagemagick, and apt-get is a no-op in these kind of situation. Can you still reproduce the issue? Greetings Marc -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | lose things." Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 621 72739834 Nordisch by Nature | How to make an American Quilt | Fax: *49 621 72739835 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
