Hi All Once upon, IIRC, there were times when apt did very intelligently automatically what I have to do now myself: When I tried to install a package, apt-get/aptitude calculated the dependencies on other packages for the one I wanted to install and then installed the whole bunch of packages necessary for the installation of the one i needed.
It seems times have changed: Either apt/aptitude is braindead and on the brink of becoming unusable, or, alternatively, the Debian folks intentionally changed the software in a way where apt-get does not do any more what it did some time ago. In the latter case the bug (again: It's not a bug: I call it brain dead) would be an intentionally designed feature. Please look at this (for better readability I slightly edited the following): [root@ 19:04:02]# apt-get --simulate install gconf2 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... 0% Building dependency tree... Done You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these: The following packages have unmet dependencies: gconf2: Depends: gconf2-common (= 2.10.1-6) but it is not going to be installed Conflicts: libgconf2-4 (< 2.10.1-3) but 2.10.1-1 is to be installed gnome-core: Depends: bug-buddy (>= 2.10.0) but 2.8.0-3 is to be installed E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution). [root@ 19:17:06]# [root@ 19:17:06]# apt-get --simulate install gconf2 bug-buddy gconf2-common libgconf2-4 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: gconf2-common The following packages will be upgraded: bug-buddy gconf2 libgconf2-4 3 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 173 not upgraded. Inst gconf2-common (2.10.1-6 Debian:unstable) [gnome-core ] Inst libgconf2-4 [2.10.1-1] (2.10.1-6 Debian:unstable) [gnome-core ] Inst bug-buddy [2.8.0-3] (2.10.0-3 Debian:unstable) Inst gconf2 [2.10.1-1] (2.10.1-6 Debian:unstable) Conf gconf2-common (2.10.1-6 Debian:unstable) Conf libgconf2-4 (2.10.1-6 Debian:unstable) Conf bug-buddy (2.10.0-3 Debian:unstable) Conf gconf2 (2.10.1-6 Debian:unstable) [root@ 19:17:54]# Again: Is it brain dead software or a feature? Or what did I miss? Thanks in anticipation Best Regards Wolfgang -- Wolfgang Pfeiffer http://profiles.yahoo.com/wolfgangpfeiffer Key ID: E3037113 Key fingerprint = A8CA 9D8C 54C4 4CC1 0B26 AA3C 9108 FB42 E303 7113 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]