Greetings; New debian user, old readhat/fedora user.
I have sarge installed and had aptitude install both gnome and kde. gnome looks ok I guess althought there are errors, but I'm a kde fan and the utility called 'switchdesk' doesn't seem to be available... I tried to do an 'aptitude install switchdesk' and got this error synopsis after it munched thru the database: ------------ Couldn't find any package whose name or description matched "switchdesk" The following packages have been kept back: adduser base-config base-files base-passwd bash bsdmainutils console-common cron debconf debconf-i18n debianutils exim4 exim4-base exim4-config exim4-daemon-light findutils gettext-base grep groff-base iptables libattr1 liblocale-gettext-perl liblzo1 libnewt0.51 libpcre3 libtasn1-2 libtext-charwidth-perl libtext-iconv-perl libtext-wrapi18n-perl login makedev man-db manpages net-tools netkit-inetd passwd procps psmisc tasksel wget whiptail 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 41 not upgraded. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. Writing extended state information... Done Setting up gdb (6.3-6) ... gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--crc error install-info(/usr/share/info/gdb.info): read gzip -cd </usr/share/info/gdb.info.gz |: 256 dpkg: error processing gdb (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of bug-buddy: bug-buddy depends on gdb; however: Package gdb is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing bug-buddy (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of gnome-core: gnome-core depends on bug-buddy (>= 2.8.0); however: Package bug-buddy is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing gnome-core (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of gnome-desktop-environment: gnome-desktop-environment depends on gnome-core (= 64); however: Package gnome-core is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing gnome-desktop-environment (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of gnome-office: gnome-office depends on gnome-core (= 64); however: Package gnome-core is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing gnome-office (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of gnome: gnome depends on gnome-desktop-environment (= 64); however: Package gnome-desktop-environment is not configured yet. gnome depends on gnome-office (= 64); however: Package gnome-office is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing gnome (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: gdb bug-buddy gnome-core gnome-desktop-environment gnome-office gnome E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Ack! Something bad happened while installing packages. Trying to recover: Setting up gdb (6.3-6) ... gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--crc error install-info(/usr/share/info/gdb.info): read gzip -cd </usr/share/info/gdb.info.gz |: 256 dpkg: error processing gdb (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of bug-buddy: bug-buddy depends on gdb; however: Package gdb is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing bug-buddy (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of gnome-core: gnome-core depends on bug-buddy (>= 2.8.0); however: Package bug-buddy is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing gnome-core (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of gnome-desktop-environment: gnome-desktop-environment depends on gnome-core (= 64); however: Package gnome-core is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing gnome-desktop-environment (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of gnome-office: gnome-office depends on gnome-core (= 64); however: Package gnome-core is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing gnome-office (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of gnome: gnome depends on gnome-desktop-environment (= 64); however: Package gnome-desktop-environment is not configured yet. gnome depends on gnome-office (= 64); however: Package gnome-office is not configured yet. dpkg: error processing gnome (--configure): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: gdb bug-buddy gnome-core gnome-desktop-environment gnome-office gnome Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... Done shop:~# -------------- What do I do about the errors above? And, what do I have to install to get the switchdesk (or a workalike) utilty? -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.35% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
