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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Ray Smith wrote: > installed knoppix to my hard drive using the shell script and it works fine. > > now I want to try putting on galeon and evolution as they are not on gnome > unlike most gnome distros. > > try running dselect to update and I find packages like evolution and galeon > in the list but when i try to apt install I get dependancy errors. So you cut and pasted them - where exactly ? ;-) > I though that apt was so great that it could resolve dependancy problems by > donloading needed packages automatically. It has always done that for me so far (which isn't long admittedly but I like playing with lots of little packages so I make it work for a living), but I gather sometimes you have to give it the right hints in the sources file. Presumably there are some sets of dependency rules that are impossible to satisfy completely - at which point something has to give, and presumably the smart thing is not to break installed software till someone who really knows what they are doing tells apt to (that's what manuals are for - convincing machines you have a clue - at least that is what I use them for). > OBVIOUSLY I'm doing something wrong here. Nah there is a cast of thousands of suspects - mainly Debian package maintainers - you're just #1 on the list. > Currently re-installing mandrake as knoppix is so easy to put back on at a > later date anyway ! So it won't take long to show us the errors? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE+NVo3GFXfHI9FVgYRAgoHAKCw9G0iYxkGpgQ5nu5f94UTtOEKpgCdGKkT RkwCqWOc0SvxccfCrFrD7J0= =XKJG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.