[H-GEN] Debian install newbie

David Munn djmunn at bigpond.com
Mon Aug 25 07:45:20 EDT 2003


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On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 07:34 am, David Duffy wrote:
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> > David Duffy wrote:
> >> I added the last line and commented out the 1st two lines.
> >> The machine is shutdown now so I can't try anything more
> >> until tomorrow night after work. It's in my son's bedroom
> >> and was keeping him awake! I'll make room for it in the
> >> cupboard with the RH7.3 box tomorrow and try again. I can
> >> SSH into it so at least that's something I guess! :-)
>
> Michael Anthon wrote:
> > Heh, he needs to be trained to stay awake later then.  Try with the 3
> > lines (and only the 3 lines) from my earlier email, leave the others in
> > there if you like, just make sure they are all disabled.  I haven't done
> > a full CD install for a while so I'm not sure about the lines for the
> > CD, does seem a bit odd though.
>
> OK, revised the sources list, did the update and tried again:
>
>
> earth:~# apt-get install apache
> 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:
>
> Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
>    apache: Depends: apache-common (>= 1.3.26-0) but it is not going to
> be installed
>            Depends: apache-common (< 1.3.27-0) but it is not going to be
> installed
>            Depends: perl5 or
>                     perl but it is not going to be installed
> E: Sorry, broken packages
>
>
> I'm beginning to think the APC CD install is just plain broken!
> David...

Hi David...I tried those cds for an install and also got Broken packages...i 
think the cds are no good...havent tried again as ive been too busy with 
Slackware 9 and Amateur Radio packet....

David Munn
VK4BDJ

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