On 07/28/2005 11:55 am, Gena Batyan wrote: > pier wrote: > > Gena Batyan wrote: > >>I'm using unstable and I have encountered a strange situation a few > >> times. When trying to install a package using apt-get, it says among > >> other things 'following packages will be REMOVED: ...' and this list is > >> HUGE! I'll give an example. I'm trying to install gaim, which depends on > >> the package libaspell15c2 > >>What in the name of god is going on here??? How can a package request > >>deinstallation of almost a complete system, most of the packages > >>scheduled for removal have NOTHING to do with the library. > > > > Have you tried to do an apt-get update and apt-get upgrade before? > > Or an apt-get -f install? > > Sure, I'm doing it almost every day in the hope that it gets resolved. > Nothing helps
This happened to me when I installed packages from both stable and unstable; I had a mixed system. I think it might help if you "pin" your system and then if you want to install gaim from unstable, build it from source after doing 'apt-get build-dep gaim'. If you want to install packages from unstable, you are going to have problems like this one again and again. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
