Package: apt Version: 0.5.4 Severity: normal Consider this log:
christoph:/home/jgoerzen# apt-get install gnucash 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: gnucash: Depends: libwww-perl but it is not going to be installed E: Sorry, broken packages christoph:/home/jgoerzen# apt-get install libwww-perl 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: libwww-perl: Depends: libmime-base64-perl (>= 2.1) E: Sorry, broken packages christoph:/home/jgoerzen# dpkg -l libmime-base64-perl Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | 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 libmime-base64 2.12-4 MIME/Base64 decoding for Perl -- System Information Debian Release: testing/unstable Kernel Version: Linux christoph 2.4.19-rc1-ben0 #1 Mon Jul 15 21:11:39 EST 2002 ppc unknown unknown GNU/Linux Versions of the packages apt depends on: ii libc6 2.2.5-14 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone ii libstdc++2.10- 2.95.4-11 The GNU stdc++ library

