[Linux-disciples] Installing GNOME on a new Linux box

[Adam Kessel]

It doesn't work that way.  -t stable only targets stable for the packages
in question, not their dependencies.  So it's trying to get
x-window-system xserver-xfree86 and gnome from stable, but if a more
recent version of anything they depend on exist in unstable it tries to
get that; this causes great conflicts.

Your best bet is to remove the unstable sources or to pin to stable.

On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 10:12:54AM -0400, Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 10:06:35AM -0400, Adam Kessel wrote:
> > You need to pin your preferences on stable if you don't want it to
> > automatically fetch out of unstable.  man apt_preferences
> 
> Wouldn't this command also do the trick?
> 
> sudo apt-get install -t stable x-window-system xserver-xfree86 gnome
> 
> When I run that, I get
> 
> Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
>   gnome: Depends: gnome-desktop-environment (= 49) but it is not going to be installed
>          Depends: gnome-office (= 49) but it is not going to be installed
>          Depends: gnome-themes-extras but it is not going to be installed
>          Depends: netspeed but it is not going to be installed
>          Depends: rhythmbox but it is not going to be installed
> 
> If I add gnome-desktop-environment to the list of packages
> on the command line, I again get a huge list of problematic
> packages.
-- 
Adam Kessel
http://adam.rosi-kessel.org
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