Hi, Here is Ben Collins, the maintainer of slapd wrote to me:
To be honest, this looks like an apt bug to me. Nothing in slapd's dep chain requires gnome. -------------- In response to: -------------- Hi, I am new to linux, just installed debian yesterday, running "unstable". I want to install slapd and get: lab:/home/joe# apt-get install slapd 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: gnome-core: Depends: gnome-bin (>= 1.2.8-1) but it is not going to be installed E: Sorry, broken packages ----------- lab:/home/joe# apt-get install gnome-core Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Sorry, gnome-core is already the newest version. 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 66 not upgraded. ----------- lab:/home/joe# apt-get install gnome-bin Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Sorry, gnome-bin is already the newest version. 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 66 not upgraded. Any idea what is going on? Do I have a hosed system? I'm curious why slapd even cares about gnome. thanks, -joe
