On Sunday 15 February 2004 09:49, you wrote: > Dear Alan and friends: > > Thanks so very much for troubleshooting my situation. In brief: >
Lets do this via the list - not in private e-mail. I don't have all the answers and I am about to go out for the day, so others may need to get involved (and since I am subscribed to the mailing list there is no need to also copy me on any replies) The other point of ettiquette is that you should not top post (ie put your message at the top and just leave all the text below. Just keep the bits that you refer to you in your reply and get rid of the rest. Put your replies just under the bit they refer to (see how I did the reply to you) > 1) I definitely did a COMPLETE, FRESH install. In fact, I first deleted all > existing partitions, then assigned new partitions and reformatted the disk, > then installed Xandros 2.0. > > 2) Yes, Xandros has apparently modified synaptic (or perhaps aptitude or > just apt-get) to create its Xandros Networks installation tool. > > 3) The last thing I remember is trying to install "synaptic", first as a > sarge binary, then as a sarge tarball (both from the Synaptic site). > However, the install failed. Pehaps it was from the "unstable" source. It > didn't say. Here is the output for "whereis synaptic": This is the problem - this version of synaptic needs a whole set of libraries with different dependencies. does apt-get remove synaptic help? ... > At any rate, in my earlier installation, I had installed synaptic and many, > many Debian applications without a flaw and without a single instance of a > "broken file" (according to synaptic itself). Here is, by the way, my > preferences file: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /etc/apt/preferences > Package: * > Pin: release l=Xandros Networks > Pin-Priority: 991 > > Package: * > Pin: release o=Xandros Corporation > Pin-Priority: 991 > > Package: * > Pin: release a=stable > Pin-Priority: 777 > > Package: * > Pin: release a=unstable > Pin-Priority: 333 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ... > On 02/15/2004 03:24 am, Alan Chandler wrote: ... > > Whats in your /etc/apt/sources.list file? Still need the contents of this file One way out of this is probably to put a line in it to access the proper debian archive deb ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib (replace UK with a mirror near you) then do apt-get update This should then provide access to all those missing dependencies. The only worry I have with that is that libc6 is one of those libraries that need updating - and you may end up effectively switching to unstable just because of all the dependencies that this brings in. -- Alan Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
