At 10:27 PM 10/20/2000 -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> So it required some unstable packages, so I added an unstable ftp
source to
> my apt/source.list, and it did indeed find the two required packages, but
> also about 189 (90MB) of other stuff.
> -- (Any way to have just gotten the one desired thing from unstable?)
The simplest solution is just copy down the desired .deb and install it
via dpkg:
dpkg -i somefile.deb
...you'll get some funkyness in your package lists (basically, you've
installed a package for which there isn't sufficient metadata), but
generally there's no permanent harm done.
-- I may start over and try this.
What you've done instead is to step onto the Woody distribution wagon.
You're going to be upgrading on unstable from here on out. You may not
have wanted to do that.
> Now, two more items show up missing:
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Get:1 ftp://ftp.us.debian.org unstable/main libcapplet0 1:1.2.2-4 [15.4kB]
> Err ftp://ftp.us.debian.org unstable/main libcapplet0 1:1.2.2-4
> Unable to fetch file, server said
> '/debian/dists/woody/main/binary-i386/libs/libcapplet0_1.2.2-4.deb: No
such
> file or directory. '
> Failed to fetch
>
ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/dists/woody/main/binary-i386/libs/libcapplet0_1.2.2-4.deb
> Unable to fetch file, server said
> '/debian/dists/woody/main/binary-i386/libs/libcapplet0_1.2.2-4.deb: No
such
> file or directory. '
>
> E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe try with --fix-missing?
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> 1) What should I do?
First try to refresh your package lists. Note that these are *unstable* --
first, the list(s) may have been updated since last you checked.
-- I did the update step in dselect twice.
Are these really missing? or just the dependencies broken?
Should I also include the ftp stable in my source.lists?
There are a few candidates; but "just" at different revision levels:
stable
24% libcapplet0 1.0.51-4 (14.3k)
Library for Gnome Control Center applets
unstable
24% libcapplet0 1:1.2.2-5 (15.1k)
Library for Gnome Control Center applets
Second, you're upgrading on an unstable track. Again, do you really want
this?
-- no; any recovery path?
Have you checked RedHat lately? <g>
-- no, but ....
Depending on what you're installing and when, it's possible to get
tangled up in dependency issues. Generally, my recommendation is to
take it slowly and update or install a few packages at a time. It's the
one swell foop manuvers which get you into trouble.
-- yes, but I didn't find anywhere how to do that, and as you describe
above, it seems that it is not really supported.
Thanks,
Greg
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Dr. Gregory Guthrie
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Computer Science Department
School of Computing and Information Science
Maharishi University of Management
(Maharishi International University 1971-1995)
http://www.mum.edu/cs_dept
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