Package: apt Version: 0.5.4 Severity: normal Newly installed system, I want to build boot-floppies:
# apt-get build-dep boot-floppies Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Note, selecting libc6-pic instead of glibc-pic E: Some broken packages were found while trying to process build-dependencies. You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these. # apt-get -f install Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded. # trying to install parts manually: snort:/home/dwhedon# apt-get install libc6-pic Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: libc6-pic 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded. Need to get 857kB of archives. After unpacking 3494kB will be used. Get:1 http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main libc6-pic 2.2.5-3 [857kB] Fetched 857kB in 4s (188kB/s) Selecting previously deselected package libc6-pic. (Reading database ... 20946 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking libc6-pic (from .../libc6-pic_2.2.5-3_i386.deb) ... Setting up libc6-pic (2.2.5-3) ... # apt-get build-dep boot-floppies Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done E: Some broken packages were found while trying to process build-dependencies. You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these. # apt-get -f install Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. # apt-get upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. # oh well, I'll do it really manually: # apt-get install slang1-utf8-pic libnewt-utf8-dev libnewt-utf8-pic libpopt-dev zlib1g-dev recode debiandoc-sgml libi18n-langtags-perl libpaperg tetex-extra libwww-perl libpng2-dev pointerize libgd-dev bogl-bterm libbogl-dev ash dpkg-awk debhelper gawk python-dev python2.1-xml bf-utf-source zlib-bin wget debootstrap debhelper Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: debconf-utils defoma dialog gsfonts html2text libbogl0 libdigest-md5-perl libexpat1 libgd1 libhtml-parser-perl libhtml-tagset-perl libhtml-tree-perl libkpathsea3 libmime-base64-perl libnet-perl libnewt-utf8-0 librecode0 libsgmls-perl libsp1 libtext-format-perl liburi-perl python2.1-dev python2.1-xmlbase sgml-base sgml-data sgmlspl slang1-utf8-dev slang1a-utf8 sp tetex-base tetex-bin The following packages will be REMOVED: libnewt0 modconf pppoeconf whiptail The following NEW packages will be installed: ash bf-utf-source bogl-bterm debconf-utils debhelper debiandoc-sgml debootstrap defoma dialog dpkg-awk gawk gsfonts html2text libbogl-dev libbogl0 libdigest-md5-perl libexpat1 libgd-dev libgd1 libhtml-parser-perl libhtml-tagset-perl libhtml-tree-perl libi18n-langtags-perl libkpathsea3 libmime-base64-perl libnet-perl libnewt-utf8-0 libnewt-utf8-dev libnewt-utf8-pic libpaperg libpng2-dev libpopt-dev librecode0 libsgmls-perl libsp1 libtext-format-perl liburi-perl libwww-perl pointerize python-dev python2.1-dev python2.1-xml python2.1-xmlbase recode sgml-base sgml-data sgmlspl slang1-utf8-dev slang1-utf8-pic slang1a-utf8 sp tetex-base tetex-bin tetex-extra wget zlib-bin zlib1g-dev 0 packages upgraded, 57 newly installed, 4 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 36.8MB of archives. After unpacking 111MB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] -David -- System Information Debian Release: 3.0 Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux oink 2.4.9 #1 Mon Sep 24 12:10:45 PDT 2001 i686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C Versions of packages apt depends on: ii libc6 2.2.5-3 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 1:2.95.4-3 The GNU stdc++ library

