On Sun, Feb 17, 2002 at 02:53:51PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wow. Lots of questions. The answer to most of them is I tried different things and read man pages and did google searches until I figured out how to solve the problem in front of me.
> If it is not available anymore, how did you track it down? (See below, > also.) Searching through the debian mirrors as previously noted. > 1) Is there some way to tell "apt-get install kde" to just install > whatever it can, and ignore any unmet dependency problems? (This would Not when there are broken packages, to my admittedly limited knowledge. > save me a _lot_ of extra learning & work right now, which is an acceptable > tradeoff to me at this point, knowing some things will not be fully > installed.) For me, the issue is "Can I afford NOT to learn how to cope with this?" If I don't figure it out on my own, then I haven't learned enough to be able to generalize from this specific problem to a larger set. > 4) How can it be installed? - dpkg -i XXXXX.deb > Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: > libkmid: Depends: libglib1.3-12 (>= 1.3.12) but it is not installable > > That shows ">=". > > That is different from what you said: > > The problem at that time was that libkmid > > is dependent explicitly on libglib1.3-12. That's not available any more, > > being superceded by libglib1.3-13. > > So, if it has been supersceded by 1.3-13, why doesn't apt-get obtain > 1.3-13, which would satisfy ">= 1.3.12"? > - Oh, is this why: the "-13" doesn't refer to the same thing as the ".13"? Well, I actually meant what I said, since I went and got and installed libglib1.3-13 (1.3.13), and tried again, getting the same error. Now here's the installed packages in that space, from dpkg -l: ii libglib1.3-12 1.3.12-2 Unstable GLib general-purpose C library ii libglib1.3-13 1.3.13-1 Unstable GLib general-purpose C library > 6) How would one know one wants kdebase3-audiolibs, not > kdebase-audiolibs? Do you have a pointer to something that tells me about > what kdebase, and kdebase3 are, and how I could determine which I want in > my case? Nope. Pure guesswork on my part. Just trying to help. All the other kdebase stuff is coming in kdebase3, so I figure... > E: Package kdebase3-audiolibs has no installation candidate > > Where do I look next to start tracking this down? Actually. On examining my current load out, I actually DO have kdebase-audiolibs loaded. Not kdebase3-audiolibs. Sorry for the misdirection. And to answer the $193,000,000, no I didn't win the lottery, and for some weird reason, no, I didn't retain the deb file. I think I parked it in tmp, and killed it off at some point over the last week. Perhaps someone else reading this list actually has the libglib1.3-12 deb still in their apt-cache. regards, .brian. -- Brian Bilbrey "The ships hung in the sky in [EMAIL PROTECTED] much the same way that bricks don't." www.orbdesigns.com Doug Adams, H2G
