On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 11:00:29PM -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: > I currently am running Libranet 1.90, based on Debian Potato > > It comes with KDE2.1, and I wanted to upgrade to 2.1.1, but ran into > difficulty....... > > With apt-get update and apt-get upgrade, I consistently have a large number > of KDE packages held back. So I tried to install them using apt-get install > > > I tried to install kdebase-libs > it wanted kdelibs3, which I tried to install : > > manjushri:/home/michael# apt-get install kdelibs3 > 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 are using the unstable > distribution that some required packages have not yet been created > or been moved out of Incoming. > > Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that > the package is simply not installable and a bug report against > that package should be filed. > The following information may help to resolve the situation: > > Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: > kdelibs3: Depends: libssl096 but it is not installable > E: Sorry, broken packages > Here's your main problem... kdelibs3 from Ivan (Debian maintainer) is not and will not depend on libssl. libssl is non-US, to provide that he packages kdelibs3-crypto and kdebase-crypto.
Something must be off with your /etc/apt/sources.list. The kdelibs3 you are trying to install here is not from Debian. > > > So, i tried to apt-get install libssl096- this is what happened: > > Package libssl096 has no available version, but exists in the database. > This typically means that the package was mentioned in a dependency and > never uploaded, has been obsoleted or is not available with the contents > of sources.list > E: Package libssl096 has no installation candidate > <SNIP package search results> HTH Gordon Sadler
