I'm also seeing the problems with packages not being "installed" (when
they are):
: 0 root@stellar rpm -q xmms apt/archives/
package xmms is not installed
: 1 root@stellar rpm -Uvh xmms_1.2.5-2mdk_i586.rpm libxmms1_1.2.5-2mdk_i586.rpm
Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
1:libxmms1 ########################################### [ 50%]
2:xmms ########################################### [100%]
: 0 root@stellar rpm -q xmms apt/archives/
: 0 root@stellar rpm --rebuilddb apt/archives/
: 0 root@stellar rpm -q xmms apt/archives/
package xmms is not installed
: 1 root@stellar rpm -q libxmms1 apt/archives/
package libxmms1 is not installed
: 1 root@stellar apt-get dist-upgrade apt/archives/
Processing File Dependencies... Done
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these.
Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
bug-buddy: Depends: libglade.so.0
galeon: Depends: libglade.so.0
gdm: Depends: libglade.so.0
gnome-core: Depends: libglade.so.0
gnome-guile: Depends: libglade.so.0
gnome-pilot: Depends: libglade.so.0
Depends: libpisock.so.4
gnome-utils: Depends: libglade.so.0
gtkhtml: Depends: bonobo (>= 0.32) but it is not installed
Depends: libglade.so.0
libgtkhtml14: Depends: libglade.so.0
libgtkhtml7: Depends: libglade.so.0
memprof: Depends: libglade (>= 0.7-1)
Depends: libglade.so.0
menudrake: Depends: libglade.so.0
nautilus: Depends: bonobo (>= 1.0.7) but it is not installed
Depends: medusa (>= 0.5.1) but it is not installed
Depends: eel (>= 1.0.1) but it is not installed
Depends: fam but it is not installed
Depends: libeel.so.0
Depends: libmedusa.so.0
Depends: librsvg.so.1
nautilus-mozilla: Depends: libeel.so.0
Depends: librsvg.so.1
perl-GTK-Glade: Depends: libglade.so.0
pygnome-libglade: Depends: libglade.so.0
pygtk-libglade: Depends: libglade.so.0
sawfish: Depends: librep (>= 0.14) but it is not installed
Depends: rep-gtk (>= 0.15-3mdk) but it is not installed
Depends: rep-gtk-gnome (>= 0.15-3mdk) but it is not installed
Depends: librep.so.9
sawfish-themer: Depends: rep-gtk-libglade (= 0.15-3mdk) but it is not installed
xmms-kjofol-skins: Depends: xmms (>= 1.2.0) but it is not installed
Depends: libxmms.so.1
xmms-more-vis-plugins: Depends: xmms (>= 1.0.0) but it is not installed
Depends: libxmms.so.1
xmms-skins: Depends: xmms but it is not installed
Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.
: 0 root@stellar apt-get -f install apt/archives/
Processing File Dependencies... Done
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
bonobo eel fam libeel0 libglade0 libmedusa0 libpilot-link4 librep librsvg1
libxmms1 medusa rep-gtk rep-gtk-gnome rep-gtk-libglade xmms
The following NEW packages will be installed:
bonobo eel fam libeel0 libglade0 libmedusa0 libpilot-link4 librep librsvg1
libxmms1 medusa rep-gtk rep-gtk-gnome rep-gtk-libglade xmms
0 packages upgraded, 15 newly installed, 0 to remove and 389 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/3529kB of archives. After unpacking 9605kB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
If I do continue the packages are installed but none of them are being
recognized as being installed.
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