Re: Won't Install Anything

From: Jim Richardson (warlock_at_eskimo.com)
Date: 02/04/05


Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 07:04:08 -0800


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On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 20:31:44 -0500,
 joe <thumber@bigfoot.com> wrote:
> I'm running Mepis, which is a debian distro. It can no longer install
> packages.
>
> Here is an example of the messages I get when attempting to install
> anything.
>
> root@20[joe]# apt-get install nano
> 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:
> libcupsys2-dev: Depends: libcupsys2-gnutls10 (= 1.1.22-2) but 1.1.23-3
> is to be installed
> E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or
> specify a solution).
>

try removing libcupsys2-dev. It's a developement package, and unless you
need to compile stuff related to the cupsys printer stuff, you shouldn't
need it.

apt-get remove libcupsys2-dev

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