I tried to install the "primitive" Debian on my PC. But both potato's and woody's installation kernels can't detect my SCSI cdrom. My SCSI card is MT MOSEL's MT8231U using Advansys chip which can be detected but the devices attached to the card can not. All the SCSI id numbers are scanned one by one and after being timeout, nothing is found. So I got to find Progeny Debian which promises more pleasant installation and setup experiences for people accustomed to RedHat, Corel or other commercial Linux flavors. Yeah! The installation went smooth this time. But a while later, I am sorry to find no Chinese-related packages from Progeny site's package directories. So again I turned back to primitive Debian for task-chinese-t, a quite complete Traditional Chinese package. I modified /etc/apt/sources.list by appending some more debian.org url's, then root# apt-get update root# apt-get install task-chinese-t No luck. The error says that: Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: task-chinese-t: Depends: zh-trans but it is not going to be installed E: Sorry, broken packages I tried to install zh-trans, but it depends on another packages, which depends on yet another packages and on and on. Presumably, APT will resolve the dependencies issue automatically. It seems that many packages required by task-chinese-t have older versions than that of Progeny. Since Progeny claims that "The only thing Progeny has done is create add-ons to the standard Debian distribution", it seems not quite appropriate that some packages in the original distro are missing from the Progeny one, especially when packages for other languages are retained. Would Progeny consider getting Chinese packages back into it? And for the moment, is it possible for me to install them from potato or woody? Any suggestion would be highly appreciated. Thanks a lot. --KhoGuan PhuaN
