Hmmm, interesting. Well, now I don't know. This is what I'm
basing my message on
# apt-get -u install acme
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
capplets gnome gnome-applets gnome-control-center gnome-core
gnome-desktop-environment gnome-office gnome-panel
gnome-panel-data gnome-terminal
The following NEW packages will be installed:
acme
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 10 to remove and 2
not upgraded.
Need to get 217kB of archives.
After unpacking 18.4MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n
Abort.
I assumed given this that acme conflicted with "gnome" et al. A
'dpkg -p acme' yeilds
.
.
.
Conflicts: pbbuttonsd
.
.
.
however. Your tip seems to show the problem. 'apt-get install
acme gnome' yeilds
.
.
.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
capplets: Conflicts: acme but 2.4.3-2 is to be installed
.
.
.
Apparently "capplets" is what gives you tools to configure Gnome2
so I guess you can have one or the other. Too bad but I guess
that's the deal.
Thanks!
Paul
->>In response to your message<<-
--received from Chris Metzler--
>
> On Wed, 7 Jul 2004 11:29:50 -0700
> Paul Yeatman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Hi, for anyone running Sarge, the "acme" package was a cool new feature
> > to me that allowed you to set up "multimedia keys" on whatever keyboard
> > one has. Starting with updates a couple weeks ago, "acme" now
> > conflicts with "gnome" and other foundational gnome packages.
> > Eventhough initially gnome and acme were installed together, apparently
> > now they can't be. Just curious if anyone knows anything about this?
>
> You can usually figure this out yourself with a little iterative use
> of apt-get. e.g. if you try "apt-get install foo" and it tries to remove
> bar, following that up with "apt-get install foo bar" will tell you
> where the conflict is. Sometimes you have to go a few times in, e.g.
> "apt-get foo bar" responds by trying to remove baz, so you have to do
> a "apt-get foo bar baz". But eventually you can see what the complaint
> is.
>
> You failed to include a transcript of your attempt at installation, but
> a qucick look at acme on packages.debian.org shows that it appears to
> depend on GNOME-ish libraries that are all present in current-enough
> versions on sarge. Are you sure it's conflicting with GNOME? Or is it
> simply trying to remove meta-packages that don't have any actual
> contents, like the packages "gnome" and "gnome-desktop-environment"?
>
> -c
>
>
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