OP: usually apt will tell you what exactly are the unmet dependencies, just try to install them directly along with gnome or reporting the exact error message.
The exact output is: linux:~# apt-get -t unstable install gnome 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: Depends: gnome-core (= 30) but it is not going to be installed E: Sorry, broken packages This is on the machine I installed gnome on previously, so many of the dependencies are already installed. The machine I wanted to install gnome on has none of the dependencies and the error output complains about _all_ of them. As noted in my other reply, installing them all by hand is really out of the question. Adan __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com