On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, Keith Harbaugh wrote: > ============================== rather large snip =========================== > > dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of wordnet-base: > wordnet-base depends on wordnet; however: > Package wordnet is not configured yet. > dpkg: error processing wordnet-base (--configure): > dependency problems - leaving unconfigured > > ============================== somewhat smaller snip ======================== > > Errors were encountered while processing: > wordnet-base
That explains everything - wordnet and wordnet-base have a cyclic dependency - dpkg will ignore that only if they are both configured at the same time, for cyclic depends APT doesn't do that [I don't see how given the command line length issues] These are bugs in wordnet that results in a screwball error message.. Jason
