On Tuesday, 3. July 2001 02:12, Marc Wilson wrote: > Especially since dselect doesn't, in fact, handle dependencies > superior to apt, since they both use the SAME dependency mechanism. > > Something else is at work here. Did you, perhaps, forget to update > before trying to install xcdroast, and remembered to do that when you > used dselect? > > What ELSE did dselect decide to install on your box when you did > this? > > ----- > Marc Wilson > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.moonkingdom.net/mwilson
Hello Marc hmmm, I deffinately did "apt-get update" before anything else. I remember I started dselect, without choosing any packages it wanted to INSTALL all packeges I installed in an upgrading (woody - sid) process via apt, again. I was curious but thought that apt does not update the database of dselect or whatever, so I said yes. Later I tried to install xcdroast. I had xcdroast in woody installed but didnt work (complaining about tix ). Apt just refused to install xcdroast because of dependencies (as shown below). I tried different thing without success. That was the point when I contacted the list about my problem. Joost, recommended me to use dselect. After starting it, in INSTALL where allready ~30MB of different stuff. I remember it was mainly libstuff but otheres as well (gpm, biff - and other UNWANTED stuff...). I didnt say Y at this point. I SELECTed xcdroast and went to INSTALL again. Now I had exactly the ~30MB + xcdroast nothing else. I said Y. everything is working now. tim > -----Original Message----- > From: tim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, July 02, 2001 3:12 PM > To: Joost Kooij > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: xcdroast in sid/unstable not installable? > > On Monday, 2. July 2001 18:31, Joost Kooij wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 05:25:08PM +0200, tim wrote: > > > tim:~# apt-get install xcdroast > > > Reading Package Lists... Done > > > Building Dependency Tree... Done > > > xcdroast: Conflicts: cdrecord (>= 3:1.10a18.0) but 4:1.10-1 is > > > to be installed > > > Conflicts: mkisofs (>= 3:1.10a18.0) but 4:1.10-1 is > > > to be installed > > > Conflicts: cdda2wav (>= 3:1.10a18.0) but 4:1.10-1 is > > > to be installed > > > E: Sorry, broken packages > > > > Why don't you use dselect? > > > > Cheers, > > > > > > Joost > > good point! it worked. > > I have never paid attention to dselect since I installed debian first > - a horrible experience. Since then I allways make a minimal install > and apt-get what I want. > > But now I realized that dselect handles dependencies superior to apt. > How comes i thought they use the same database. > > thank you!!! (a third time today) > > tim > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
