On Sunday 15 February 2004 06:49, Benjamin Sher wrote: > Dear friends: > > [Using Xandros 2.0/Debian] > > This morning I noticed that I could no longer install anything from Xandros > Networks. I drew the conclusion that I had been pushing the envelope to the > breaking point, installing from all sorts of sources, including unstable > (though with a /etc/apt/preferences file). Humbled by this experience, I
What is in your preferences file? > figured that I had better do a complete, fresh install of Xandros 2.0 > Standard and this time really be strict and disciplined with myself. So, I > deleted the entire installation and started from scratch. This time, I When you say deleted the entire installation, did you really do a complete fresh install, or did you just uninstall a load of stuff > restricted myself to Xandros Networks and only to its two default sources > (XN 1 and XN 2). In fact, I installed Xandros' own applications first and > only then was about to start installing some applications from the second > XN unsupported Debian source in XN. And suddenly, after a good 3 or 4 hours > of installation, with what looks like a perfect installation, XN seems to > have collapsed. I cannot install ANYTHING, including XN's own applications, > i.e. from XN1 (with the default XN symbol) using the STANDARD option under > Edit, Standard (instead of Expert). I've tried at least a dozen of them and > they all give me the same error message. Please click on this link for a > screenshot: > > http://www.websher.net/xn-1.png I am afraid I don't understand most of the above because I use standard debian, and what you are talking about in Xandros stuff. I suspect your underlying problems are related to some combination of what library versions are installed > > And here is the output from the console when I tried to install this same > file, the GCC 3.3 development files using apt-get: > > Dell:/# apt-get -f install gcc-3.3 > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these: > The following packages have unmet dependencies: > synaptic: Depends: libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.4.1) but 1.2.4-1 is to be installed What this is saying is that synaptic needs a version of libatk1.0-0 that is greater than 1.4.1, but the best your /etc/apt/sources.list can find is 1.2.4-1 This is why I was asking above how much you actually uninstalled. Synaptic is a program for installing stuff. I presume (ie I am guessing) that from your screenshot Xandros has modified synaptic to use it as its installer. > Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-4) but 2.3.2-7 is to be installed Similar issue here. - the strange ending on the version of libc6 is, I presume, some indication of the problem. I know that debian unstable has 2.3.2.ds1-11 and sarge 2.3.2.ds1-10, so I assume that something has a dependency on this. Whats in your /etc/apt/sources.list file? > Depends: libgcc1 (>= 1:3.3.2-1) but 1:3.3.2-0pre5 is to be installed > Depends: libstdc++5 (>= 1:3.3.2-1) but 1:3.3.2-0pre5 is to be installed > Depends: libxml2 (>= 2.6.2) but 2.5.11-2 is to be installed > Depends: libzvt2.0-0 (>= 2.0.1cvs20021009-1) but it is not going to be > installed > Depends: zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.1) but 1:1.1.4-15 is to be installed Similar issues to above > Depends: gksu but it is not going to be installed > Depends: scrollkeeper but it is not going to be installed > E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or > specify a solution). > Dell:/# > > None of this makes any sense to me. I did try to use the Xandros Restore > function, but it didn't make any difference whatsoever. Its all related to dependencies - and also depends what your starting point. Depending on your /etc/apt/preferences file, then the apt system will not downgrade already installed files. If you really started from scratch (ie wiped the disk and did a fresh install) then I am puzzled. If you just removed some packages and tried to then re-install I think you have some later versions of things left lying around (synaptic seems to be one of these). > > I would very much appreciate your help and advice. I have no idea what's > going on and how to proceed. Normally these things can be resolved bit by bit. But we need some details of what process you went through and whats in your /etc/apt/sources.list file > > Thank you so very much. > > Benjamin -- Alan Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
