On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 09:37:25PM -0500, Terry Hancock wrote: > On Monday 22 September 2003 08:32 pm, Darryl Barlow wrote: > > Are you running unstable? If so, as of the last time I checked, the > > kdemultimedia package is broken. A bug report was filed some time > > ago but it has not yet been fixed. This is one of the joys of > > running unstable and the price to be paid for running a more > > "cutting edge" distribution. Personally I find it remarkably stable > > but these things do happen from time to time. > > Well, I'm actually running a mixed system with "stable" preferred (but > libc6 and other development packages are from unstable). So it's not a > flat single distribution system -- and that may indeed be why I'm > running into this kind of grief.
Quite possibly. I'd *strongly* recommend not doing that. There's basically no point running stable if you're just going to upgrade its libc6 to unstable ... apt-get is known to react badly to slightly inconsistent systems, and those are very easy to set up when trying to mix stable and unstable. > But apt-get is refusing to *recognize* that it is installed at some > times (when it's a dependency), but insisting that it is at other > times (when you try to install it or when it conflicts). 'apt-get -f install' might help; but I think I'd use a more sophisticated package manager to try to figure this out, not apt-get which was originally written as a test utility for the apt library and which doesn't have much facility for interacting with the user. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
