On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 12:26, Shawn Lamson wrote: > On Sun, June 29 at 12:26 PM EDT > Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > > I get a heap of > > Depends: <package> but it is not going to be installed > > and then finally > > E: Sorry, broken packages > > for anything I try through tasksel. > > > > I'm using 3.0r1 on and athlon XP 2000+ with pretty standard hw. I've > > got to the shell, and got the network going, but I can't get a gui! > > Cool I am totally jealous of your hardware.
Thanks, it was a long awaited upgrade for my celeron 300 :) > Try > #apt-get -s install xserver-xfree86 This is what happened: # apt-get -s install xserver-xfree86 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: xserver-xfree86: Depends: xserver-common (>= 4.1.0-10) but it is not going to be installed E: Sorry, broken packages So I delete the 'cdrom' entries in sources.list and it seems to work ok. But obviously I have to download everything if I do this. This made me think there was something wrong with my sources.list file, but I created it with apt-setup... Thanks for your help, -- Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
