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

[Sean O'Malley]

could be bad ram? that might also be a dual proc if it is a tower and that
could be confusing it.

On Fri, 30 Mar 2007, Dan Ryan wrote:

> 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
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> > To: linux-user at egr.msu.edu
> > Sent: Fri, 30 Mar
> > 2007 11:11:25 -0500
> > Subject: [GLLUG] apt died... and I killed it.
> >
> >
> >> ->> 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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