HI The situation I am reporting on stems from trying to install the package "kaddressbook", which is out of sync with "libgnokii4" as currently situated on two different installs I have exhibiting the same behavior.
The output when trying to install from a terminal is as follows: r...@milky3:[/home/jack] # apt-get install kaddressbook Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done 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: The following packages have unmet dependencies: kaddressbook: Depends: libgnokii4 but it is not going to be installed E: Broken packages But when trying to install using packagesearch, the xterm window closes on the exit of the command, not showing a "Press enter to close the terminal emulator" prompt. To answer your question about what happens if I run an 'apt-get update' in packagesearch without a network connection, in that case the xterm window did stay open showing the connection errors after the update finished trying to run. It didn't prompt to continue. I had to <ctrl>c out of it. The behavior I refer to in this bug report concerns running an 'apt-get update' with a corrupted sources.list (specifically, adding a random letter to the front of "http" in a mirror address). In this case, the behavior I reported occurred where the 'apt-get update' running in the xterm window returned an error but the window closed at the termination of the 'apt-get update' before an error message could be read. Obviously the 'apt-get update' error I introduced presents an unusual system situation, I just thought it might be germain in debugging the problem. Thanks Jack
