Package: apt Version: 0.3.13 Severity: normal It seems apt prints a wrong error-message when it detects an installation-request impossible. In this case it says python-base 1.5.2-6 is not installed, but it most definitely is installed..
Wichert. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/www/userdir-ldap# apt-get install python-gdbm python-net 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. The following information may help to resolve the situation: Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: python-gdbm: Depends: python-base (= 1.5.2-6) but it is not installed python-net: Depends: python-base (= 1.5.2-5) but it is not installed E: Sorry, broken packages [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/www/userdir-ldap# dpkg -l python-base Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description +++-===============-==============-============================================ ii python-base 1.5.2-6 An interactive object-oriented scripting lan -- System Information Debian Release: potato Kernel Version: Linux lightning 2.2.12 #1 Tue Sep 7 02:52:26 CEST 1999 i586 unknown Versions of the packages apt depends on: hi libc6 2.1.2-0pre7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and timezone ii libstdc++2.10 2.95.2-0pre2 The GNU stdc++ library
