On Fri, 2004-02-27 at 14:29, Andreas Bach Aaen wrote: > Hi, > > I have sucessfully used Netscape Navigator 4.7x from stable in my > othervise unstable installation. After upgrading unstable to XFree4.3 > it removed netscape as it couldn't provide the needed dependancies. > Is there any way to solve this? > > I need this old outdated version of Netscape, as my homebanking > requires it. > > When It try to install navigator I get: > --------------- > apt-get install navigator > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > 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: > > The following packages have unmet dependencies: > navigator: Depends: navigator-smotif-477 but it is not going to be > installed > Depends: netscape-base-4 but it is not going to be > installed > E: Broken packages
[ ... ] I'm on unstable, powerpc: $ apt-cache policy navigator-smotif-477 W: Unable to locate package navigator-smotif-477 $ apt-cache policy netscape-base-4 netscape-base-4: Installed: (none) Candidate: (none) Version Table: So I'd try to get set up /etc/apt/sources.list for stable, too, but without removing the lines for the unstable versions, and then do something along the line # apt-get --simulate install -t stable <netscape-package> and look what apt-get says ... HTH Best Regards Wolfgang -- Profile, Links: http://profiles.yahoo.com/wolfgangpfeiffer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
