Fwd: Re: apt-get -t unstable install gnome fails with unmet dependencies

From: Adam (ack94598_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 08/27/03

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    --- Adam <ack94598@yahoo.com> wrote:
    > Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 21:00:18 -0700 (PDT)
    > From: Adam <ack94598@yahoo.com>
    > Subject: Re: apt-get -t unstable install gnome fails with unmet
    > dependencies
    > To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
    >
    > OP: usually apt will
    > tell you what exactly are the unmet dependencies, just try to
    > install
    > them directly along with gnome or reporting the exact error message.
    >
    > The exact output is:
    >
    > linux:~# apt-get -t unstable install gnome
    > Reading Package Lists... Done
    > Building Dependency Tree... Done
    > 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:
    >
    > Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
    > gnome: Depends: gnome-core (= 30) but it is not going to be
    > installed
    > E: Sorry, broken packages
    >
    > This is on the machine I installed gnome on previously, so many of
    > the
    > dependencies are already installed. The machine I wanted to install
    > gnome on has none of the dependencies and the error output complains
    > about _all_ of them. As noted in my other reply, installing them all
    > by hand is really out of the question.
    >
    > Adan
    >
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