Hi all; Having at last getting debian to boot on an old sparc10, I upgraded to woody , but now Im having some wierd apt problems. heres a snippet of whats happening;
<snip> #apt-get install task-c-dev 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: task-c-dev: Depends: task-devel-common but it is not going to be installed E: Sorry, broken packages #apt-get install task-devel-common 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: task-devel-common: Depends: autoconf but it is not going to be installed Depends: automake but it is not going to be installed E: Sorry, broken packages # apt-get install autoconf 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: autoconf: Depends: perl but it is not going to be installed Depends: autoconf2.13 (>= 2.13-34) but it is not going to be installed E: Sorry, broken packages </snip> Yet Perl is installed ; dpkg -l | grep -i perl ii libperl5.6 5.6.1-3 Shared Perl library. ii perl-5.6-base 6.2 Transitional package. ii perl-base 5.6.1-3 The Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister. Any ideas ? mallum