Sivaram Neelakantan wrote: > This is what I have. > > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- > cat /etc/apt/sources.list > # > > # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 7 _Wheezy_ - Official Snapshot amd64 > LIVE/INSTALL Binary 20141121-01:55]/ wheezy main > > #deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 7 _Wheezy_ - Official Snapshot amd64 > LIVE/INSTALL Binary 20141121-01:55]/ wheezy main
The above looks noisy to me. I suggest removing those commented out entries to simplify. > deb http://kartolo.sby.datautama.net.id/debian/ wheezy main > deb-src http://kartolo.sby.datautama.net.id/debian/ wheezy main > > deb http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main > deb-src http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates main > > # wheezy-updates, previously known as 'volatile' > deb http://kartolo.sby.datautama.net.id/debian/ wheezy-updates main > deb-src http://kartolo.sby.datautama.net.id/debian/ wheezy-updates main Okay. kartolo.sby.datautama.net.id appears to be an up to date mirror. Looks okay. > #wheezy backports > #deb http://kartolo.sby.datautama.net.id/debian wheezy-backports main Wheezy backports is okay. > #wheezy R packages > deb http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/misc/cran/bin/linux/debian wheezy-cran3/ > #deb http://cran.uni-muenster.de/bin/linux/debian wheezy-cran3/ When tracking down installation errors I am always suspicious of third party repositories. They tend to be the problem. I would comment that out while you are debugging the current problem. > The backports line, I added to get emacs24.4 and then commented it out > again. Yay! Backports! :-) > Tried the above, nothing happens. No errors or anything. And the > libcurl4 install still fails What is your output for this? Here is what it should show. $ apt-cache policy libcurl4-openssl-dev librtmp-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev: Installed: (none) Candidate: 7.26.0-1+wheezy11 Version table: 7.26.0-1+wheezy11 0 500 http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates/main amd64 Packages 7.26.0-1+wheezy10 0 500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy/main amd64 Packages librtmp-dev: Installed: (none) Candidate: 2.4+20111222.git4e06e21-1 Version table: 2.4+20111222.git4e06e21-1 0 500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy/main amd64 Packages Your previous error said it could not install librtmp-dev as a dependency. But it should be in the archive right next to it. > >> I've recently started using debian and apart some fiddling to get > >> the latest emacs24.4 on wheezy I have not done anything on the > >> system. > > > > Alarm bells! Alarm bells! Exactly what did you do to install Emacs > > 24 on Wheezy? Wheezy released with Emacs 23 of course. > > After adding the backports to the sources.list, I did a apt-get > install of emacs24.4 and that installed what I wanted. Okay. All good! Backports should be okay. I was worried because people sometimes do really scary things. But emacs from backports should be just fine. Bob
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