Hi, I'm new to the list so I'll introduce myself. My name's Paulo and I've just installed debian woody by netinstall. The machine (frodo) is to be used for development and messing around for users wanting NIX shells.
when i try to install anything requiring perl or gtk, i get strange apt error messages indicating broken packages. Can anyone help me out or let me know where i should seek help? here's an example of trying to install perl (which is installed on the machine!). frodo:~# apt-get install perl 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: perl: Depends: perl-5.004 but it is not going to be installed E: Sorry, broken packages same applies for lib dbi: frodo:/usr/local/mysql# apt-get install libdbi-perl 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: libdbi-perl: Depends: perl-5.005 but it is not going to be installed E: Sorry, broken packages any help would be greatly appreciated. thanks and hello -paulo a.k.a. powlow ---------------------------------------------------- Paulo Murphy de Freitas ---------------------------------------------------- Service Platforms Organization Administration and Maintenance ---------------------------------------------------- Edif�cio Altejo, Rua 3, 2� Andar Matinha - Portugal tel. 963749856 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
