[GLLUG] apt died... and I killed it.

[Dan Ryan]

I tried aptitude as well, but got a whole 'nother set of issues,  
namely this charmer:  Processing was halted because there were too  
many errors.  even the -f flag did nothing.

Sigh.  I just installed Ubuntu this morning, so I won't lose anything  
if I must reformat.   Such is life.

Cheers,
Dan Ryan

On Mar 30, 2007, at 12:14 PM, Benjamin Cathey wrote:

> I have heard aptitude is better at resolving dependancy issues -  
> that's the rumor.  maybe try aptitude -f install?
>
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Dan Ryan
> [mailto:thethinkbox at gmail.com]
> To: linux-user at egr.msu.edu
> Sent: Fri, 30 Mar
> 2007 11:11:25 -0500
> Subject: [GLLUG] apt died... and I killed it.
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>
>> ->> Hi everyone,
>> ->>
>> ->> I somehow found myself the proud owner of an old PowerMac G4.   
>> With a
>> ->> 450Mhz CPU, 768MB RAM, 80GB HDD, it's not a bad little computer!
>> ->> Naturally, the first thing I do is slap Ubuntu on there.
>> ->>
>> ->> So earlier today, I'm rocking out on it, and all of a sudded I  
>> get
>> ->> myself a messy error:  E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f
>> ->> install' with no packages (or specify a solution).
>> ->>
>> ->> Apt worked great until I tried installing KDE from apt (The  
>> version
>> ->> I'm using is 6.06 Server PPC, so it didn't come with a GUI)  
>> and now
>> ->> whenever I try installing anything else from packages, I get that
>> ->> little error.  Installing from source works fine, just apt is all
>> ->> wonky.  I tried adding more repositories, changing the  
>> repositories,
>> ->> and using the Ubuntu cd.  I even tried a dist-upgrade, but to  
>> no avail.
>> ->>
>> ->> There's got to be something I'm missing.  Any ideas?
>> ->>
>> ->> Cheers,
>> ->> Dan Ryan
>> ->>
>> ->>
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