[ale] Endless dependencies

[Zephaniah E. Hull]

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I'd suggest just using apt-get (which should be installed by default)..

apt-get install eeyes

That should grab eeyes and any packages it depends on, then install them
in the right order..

Zephaniah E. Hull..
Registered Debian Developer.

On Mon, Aug 30, 1999 at 08:34:19PM +0000, sara yurman wrote:
> I'm attempting to install Electric Eyes using .deb packages.  It will, I
> hope, be the first Gnome package on the system so there are a lot of
> supporting packages to install.  Two of them (libgnome32 and
> libgnomeui32) won't install because each is dependent on the other.=20
> Everything else seems to be dependent on libgnome32.
>=20
> Any words of wisdom out there?  I've listed my error messages below.
>=20
> TIA,
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> Sara
>=20
> *********************messages********************************************
> dpkg -i libgnomeui32_1.0.9-1.9.slink.1_i386.deb=20
> (Reading database ... 8670 files and directories currently installed.)
> Preparing to replace libgnomeui32 1.0.9-1.9.slink.1 (using
> libgnomeui32_1.0.9-1.9.slink.1
> _i386.deb) ...
> Unpacking replacement libgnomeui32 ...
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libgnomeui32:
>  libgnomeui32 depends on libgnome32; however:
>    Package libgnome32 is not configured yet.
>    dpkg: error processing libgnomeui32 (--install):
>     dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
>     Errors were encountered while processing:
>      libgnomeui32
>=20
> dpkg -i libgnome32_1.0.9-1.9.slink.1_i386.deb
> (Reading database ... 8670 files and directories currently installed.)
> Preparing to replace libgnome32 1.0.9-1.9.slink.1 (using
> libgnome32_1.0.9-1.9.slink.1_i38
> 6.deb) ...
> Unpacking replacement libgnome32 ...
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libgnome32:
>  libgnome32 depends on gnome-bin; however:
>    Package gnome-bin is not configured yet.
>     libgnome32 depends on libgnomeui32 (>=3D 1.0.9-1.9.slink.1); however:
>       Package libgnomeui32 is not configured yet.
>        libgnome32 depends on libgnomesupport0 (>=3D 1.0.9-1.9.slink.1);
> however:
>          Package libgnomesupport0 is not configured yet.
>          dpkg: error processing libgnome32 (--install):
>           dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
>           Errors were encountered while processing:
>            libgnome32
>=20
> libgnome support, of course, depends on libgnome32.
>=20
> --=20
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> Sara W. Yurman
> Spatial Focus, Inc.
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> email: syurman at spatialfocus.com
> voice: (404) 378-0989
> fax:   (209) 254-9531

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