On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 07:02:17PM -0400, S C wrote: > It's better, I'm awake now. Responses: > > #aptitude install k3b > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree > Reading extended state information > Initializing package states... Done > Reading task descriptions... done > E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. (?) > E: Unable to correct dependencies, some packages cannot be installed > E: Unable to resolve some dependencies! > Some packages had unmet dependencies. 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 > Agree with the other poster who suggests aptitude update and so on.
> The following packages have unmet dependencies: > k3b: Depends: kdelibs4c2a (>= 4:3.5.5-1) but it is not installable > Depends: libdbus-qt-1-1c2 (>= 0.62.git.20060814) but it is not > installable > Depends: libice6 (>= 1:1.0.0) but 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge3 is > installed but it is kept back. > Depends: libk3b2 ( >= 0.12.17) but it is not installable > Depends: libqt3-mt (>= 3:3.3.7) but it is not installable > Depends: libxinerama1 but it is not installable > aptitude install kde should resolve some of this. > deb http://mirror.peer1.net/debian etch main non-free contrib As someone else suggested, use the main US mirror. > The computer, a Toshiba Satellite A30 with 1.2 gig ram and a 40 gig hard > drive was originally dual boot MS-Debian 3.1. Windows quit. Who knows why. > Debian has been upgraded to 4.1. I think. > Printer: HP officejet 4110 all-in-one - cupsys installed and set up > according to the information I found but still non-functional. However, it > will copy and send faxes. > Jon Dowland's Debian Wiki points to some information specifically on the Toshiba Satellite A30. [wiki.koumbit.net/TheAnarcat/ToshibaSatelliteA30] This moves into French half way down - but its readable. hpoj and foomatic should do the trick for the HP. Gutenprint drivers may also help. > Applications: OpenOffice.org and GIMP. I also have Koffice and Abiword, > but I prefer OOo. Noatun. Realplayer. Luckily, Firefox works. > > Speaker is dead. It does work using the live Kubuntu disc, > but before I screw with the hard disk there are some pictures of my > wife, who recently died, on it that I would like to back up because I > have no other copies. See about cdrom above. > First things first: get yourself a USB pen drive and get those pictures off. > If the backup could be done, I have all sorts of things I could play with. > Suse 10.0.2 and Kubuntu 6.10, possibly more if I dig around. > > What I really want to find out is not necessarily how to do the specifics, > with the possible exception of the cd problem, but how and where to find > relevant and current information. How to type wouldn't be bad either, but > that's beyond even Linux. > Now you've given us some specifics of your hardware, the list can get to work and we'll help you find the stuff you may wish to read :) More later - I've to get to work :) Take care Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]