Hello, I reported the same problem in some different context allready, but since there was no answer, here it is again:
After a fresh install of a potato system with boot-floppies 2.2.8 (i386) and no packages installed, besides those in the base-system, it is unpossible to install certain task-packages. For example, trying to install task-gnome-desktop will yield the following result: apt-get install task-gnome-desktop Reading Package Lists... Building Dependency Tree... 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: task-gnome-desktop: Depends: gmc but it is not going to be installed Depends: gnome-faq but it is not going to be installed On the other hand, the following command works fine: apt-get install task-gnome-desktop gnome-faq gmc So, the package is (theoreticly) installable. This is the reason, why I feel unsure here, against which package I should file a bug with this problem: apt or the task-package Greetings, Peter -- Peter Ganten [EMAIL PROTECTED]