Re: Help! Package Hell! :)

2001-11-19 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 09:05:26PM -, Ben Hill wrote: > I am trying to find my way through Debian at the moment, but am having > a bit of a nightmare with an installation of Ximian Gnome. > > I am trying to install the packages required for the dependancies > found by the installer but I have

Help! Package Hell! :)

2001-11-19 Thread Ben Hill
Hi, I am trying to find my way through Debian at the moment, but am having a bit of a nightmare with an installation of Ximian Gnome. I am trying to install the packages required for the dependancies found by the installer but I have hit a blank. I am trying to install libdb3 but I cant remove li

Package hell (again)

2000-01-21 Thread Guyren G Howe
Okay, so I'm in different package hell this time. In trying to install a sound driver, dselect has somehow decided to remove most of the software on my computer. I'm talking as far as removing apt-get and a bunch of other system utilities. Plus, when I try to re-fetch anything with

Re: package hell

2000-01-19 Thread Dwayne C . Litzenberger
On Tue, Jan 18, 2000 at 03:01:58AM -0800, Guyren G Howe wrote: > How do I get out of package hell? > > In trying to install Enlightenment on my Debian/Corel machine, I've got > myself trapped in all sorts of loops where apt-get, dselect and dpkg all > refuse to install any

Re: package hell

2000-01-18 Thread virtanen
On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Guyren G Howe wrote: > How do I get out of package hell? > > > I've tried everything I can think of. Just now, for example, I told dselect > to remove everything. Did you remove really *everything*? In this case it is easiest to start *installing pr

package hell

2000-01-18 Thread Guyren G Howe
How do I get out of package hell? In trying to install Enlightenment on my Debian/Corel machine, I've got myself trapped in all sorts of loops where apt-get, dselect and dpkg all refuse to install any of the things I need because they can't install other things that those things depend