Re: apt-get error message seems contradictory

2009-09-08 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sat, Sep 05, 2009 at 07:54:18PM +0800, Gero Putzar was heard to say: > So "A: Breaks: B" is meant to read as "A would break B if it was going to be > installed". I interpreted the "Breaks:" as "does not comply with the need > for the following dependency". That message just lists the depend

Re: apt-get error message seems contradictory

2009-09-05 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat,05.Sep.09, 19:54:18, Gero Putzar wrote: > > I tried to install the package "shutter" from testing on my stable distro. I > included the testing repositories in the apt-sources list and set > APT::Default-Release "lenny"; Be careful with that, due to a long-standing bug in apt codenames are

Re: apt-get error message seems contradictory

2009-09-05 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-09-05 06:54, Gero Putzar wrote: Thank you very much for your help! @ Brian: So "A: Breaks: B" is meant to read as "A would break B if it was going to be installed". I interpreted the "Breaks:" as "does not comply with the need for the following dependency". Well, I'm not a native spea

RE: apt-get error message seems contradictory

2009-09-05 Thread Gero Putzar
Thank you very much for your help! @ Brian: So "A: Breaks: B" is meant to read as "A would break B if it was going to be installed". I interpreted the "Breaks:" as "does not comply with the need for the following dependency". Well, I'm not a native speaker. So maybe I should not complain about

Re: apt-get error message seems contradictory

2009-09-04 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-09-04 23:03, Gero Putzar wrote: Hi, I get the following error message from apt-get: ---snip--- The following packages have unmet dependencies: libc6-i386: Breaks: lib32asound2 (<= 1.0.20-2) but 1.0.16-2 is to be installed Breaks: lib32gcc1 (<= 1:4.4.0-6) but 1:4.3.2-1.1

Re: apt-get error message seems contradictory

2009-09-04 Thread Brian Marshall
On Sat, Sep 05, 2009 at 12:03:37PM +0800, Gero Putzar wrote: > Hi, > > I get the following error message from apt-get: > > ---snip--- > The following packages have unmet dependencies: > libc6-i386: Breaks: lib32asound2 (<= 1.0.20-2) but 1.0.16-2 is to be > installed > Breaks: lib3

apt-get error message seems contradictory

2009-09-04 Thread Gero Putzar
Hi, I get the following error message from apt-get: ---snip--- The following packages have unmet dependencies: libc6-i386: Breaks: lib32asound2 (<= 1.0.20-2) but 1.0.16-2 is to be installed Breaks: lib32gcc1 (<= 1:4.4.0-6) but 1:4.3.2-1.1 is to be installed ---snap--- I don't und