I dont know if you've already dont this, but could you post your sources.list?
Naitik. On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 02:30:06PM -0400, Neal Lippman wrote: > OK, I've posted here before with my problem installing mplayer, and I've > finally tracked things down to a missing libvorbis0a package. > > Here's what I cannot (now) figure out. > > 1) apt-show-versions | grep "vorbis" - shows me that I have no installed > packages with vorbis in it, so I don't have libvorbis0a installed. > > 2) apt-get install libvorbis0a tells me: > > Reading Package Lists... > Building Dependency Tree... > 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: > kde: Depends: kdebase-audiolibs but it is not going to be installed or > kdebase3-audiolibs but it is not installable > E: Broken packages > > so clearly I cannot install libvorbis0a. But why? > > 3) apt-get -d install libvorbis0a says the same thing, so I cannot seem to even just > download the deb. > > 4) I know the deb is there, because on packages.debian.org, I can find the > libvorbis0a > package under testing (yes, I have testing properly configured in > /etc/apt/sources.list), > and I can manually retrieve the deb from the same server I have listed in my > sources.list > file. > > 5) dpkg --info on the package thusly retrieved seems to show the correct information > in it. > > So, does this mean something is broken with apt, the packages lists (I did do an > apt-get update first), this packages, or my system? (I should mention that apt-get > check > does not show any errors). > > Thanks for any help! > > nl > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]