On 2008-08-21 21:04 +0200, Nishita Desai wrote: > Hello, > > I'm tring to install Emacs on Debian 4.0r4. Here's what apt-get gives me:
I recommend aptitude instead of apt-get, it produces much better error messages. > ff9:/home/nishita# apt-get install emacs > 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: > > The following packages have unmet dependencies: > emacs: Depends: emacs21 or > emacs21-nox but it is not going to be installed > E: Broken packages > > > Synaptic takes me through a chain which ends at: emacsen-common > I can't find this package anywhere. Well, it's there: http://packages.debian.org/etch/emacsen-common How does your sources.list look? Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
