Package: apt Version: 0.3.19 Severity: wishlist I recently tried to install wine using "apt-get install wine" and I got the following error:
*** spacesmurf:/home/jab# apt-get install wine 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: wine: Depends: libwine (= 0.0.20010510-3) but it is not going to be installed E: Sorry, broken packages spacesmurf:/home/jab# *** Now, when I see this message my instantanious reaction is: WHY isn't libwine going to be installed? Is it because I haven't explicitly said so, is there a lack of disk space or couldn't the package be found? apt should always display a reason why things couldn't be done, for example: *** Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: wine: Depends: libwine (= 0.0.20010510-3) but it is not going to be installed due to bad weather conditions in Canada. *** uname -a reports the following: Linux spacesmurf 2.4.5 #5 Mon Jun 25 23:46:27 CEST 2001 i686 unknown My /etc/apt/sources.list looks like the following: *** deb ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/os/Linux/distributions/debian woody main contrib non-free deb ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/os/Linux/distributions/debian-non-US woody/non-US main contrib non-free *** I have the following related packages installed: libc6 2.2.3-5 dpkg 1.6.15 apt 0.3.19 //Andreas Bofjall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
