I have a problem with apt. It could come from the fact that apt-get update now gives me this error:
-------------8<-------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/install# apt-get -f update Get file://amnt slink/contrib Packages Get file://amnt slink/main Packages Get file://amnt slink/non-US Packages Error file://amnt slink/non-US Packages Unable to stat //amnt/debian/dists/slink/non-US/binary-i386/Packages.gz No such file or directory Get file://amnt slink/non-free Packages ERROR file://amnt/debian/dists/slink/non-US/binary-i386/Packages.gz Unable to stat //amnt/debian/dists/slink/non-US/binary-i386/Packages.gz No such file or directory -------------8<-------------- and it's true: -------------8<-------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/install# ls //amnt/debian/dists/slink/non-US/binary-i386/ ls: //amnt/debian/dists/slink/non-US/binary-i386/: No such file or directory -------------8<-------------- On the other hand, this could just be a symptom of the real problem. Here's what I'm trying to do: I want to install an licq package from the licq homepage, since it's much more recent than the standard debian version. When doing 'dpkg -i licq-blabla.deb' it says that it needs qt-1.41. But there is no such package !(?). So I installed qt 1.42 from potato, and then installed licq with --force-depends. It installs and runs fine, but apt-get has a problem with this. When trying to install further packages with it, it says: -------------8<-------------- Checking system integrity...dependency error You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these. Sorry, but the following packages are broken - this means they have unmet dependencies: licq: Depends:qt-1.41 -------------8<-------------- But dpkg doesn't complain, it works just fine to install new packages with that. So I tried another solution: the equiv package, which is supposed to fool the system into beleiving that packages are installed when they're not. I followed the instructions in that package: edited an /etc/equivs.conf file with 'qt-1.41', and built equivs. But it doesn't help me. dpkg -l 'qt*' gives: -------------8<-------------- un qt-1.41 <none> (no description available) un qt-dev <none> (no description available) ii qt-doc 1.40-1.1 Comprehensive docs (html), examples, and tut un qt0-dev <none> (no description available) un qt0-doc <none> (no description available) un qt1 <none> (no description available) un qt1-snapshot <none> (no description available) ii qt1g 1.42-1 Shared Library used by applications linked w ii qt1g-dev 1.42-1 Environment for QT GUI development. pn qtscape <none> (no description available) -------------8<-------------- Note that i get the apt error mentioned in the beginning even if I uninstall licq and equivs. I would be REALLY grateful for any help/suggestions. -- -~* Daniel Elenius *~-