On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Andrew Pimlott wrote: > I cannot install pcmcia-cs because of dependency conflicts, but I expect at > least to be able to download it.
download only is not a feature intended to download arbitary files, but to provide a pause after a normal run. Really it doesn't make sense within what APT provides to download-only a broken set of packages. > # apt-get -f --download-only install pcmcia-cs > E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify > a solution). > Also, I don't know why it suggested using -f when I had. It suggested using -f with no packages, you used -f with packages. If you do that then you must specify a complete 'soltuion' to the dependency problem. Jason
