On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 22:36, Bret Comstock Waldow wrote: > On Sat, 2003-06-28 at 22:56, Iain Buchanan wrote: > > Hi all, [snip] > Tell me if I read this right, or what's different: > > You're installing Debian from scratch, no pre-existing files.
yep > You've completed the initial install, and can boot to, and log in to a > console. yep > You're trying to run tasksel under those conditions? yep...? Is that a leading question!? > Did you try to use tasksel to install X Windows during the initial > install (the first time tasksel was presented)? yep, this is where I first got the errors > Did you also select > "Desktop" from tasksel? yep > Have you run any install program besides tasksel (apt-get, or aptitude)? I tried apt-get, but didn't install anything. I also had a look at dselect, but again, I didn't install anything. > What does your /etc/apt/sources.list file contain? Unfortunately, I can't get the exact contents while I'm at work. From memory I had two cdrom entries first, then some au mirrors, then a debian security site. The install set all these up for me. >From another attempt at work, where I get the same results, this is what my sources.list file contains: (I'm sure the original one didn't have all those ^M's) --------------- deb cdrom:[Debian Disk 2^M^M^M^M^M^M^M^M^M^M^M^M^M]/ pool/ deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r1 _Woody_ - Official i386 Binary-1 (20021218)]/ unstable contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main deb http://mirror.pacific.net.au/debian/ stable main deb-src http://mirror.pacific.net.au/debian/ stable main deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main deb-src http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main --------------- The results I get from running tasksel and selecting X window system are: 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: x-window-system: Depends: x-window-system-core but it is not going to be installed Depends: lbxproxy but it is not going to be installed Depends: proxymngr but it is not going to be installed Depends: twm but it is not going to be installed Depends: xdm but it is not going to be installed Depends: xfwp but it is not going to be installed Depends: xnest but it is not going to be installed Depends: xterm but it is not going to be installed E: Sorry, broken packages Thanks for your help, -- Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
