On Monday 23 April 2012 22:22:11 leee wrote: > On Monday 23 April 2012 20:21:40 Greg Madden wrote: > > On Monday 23 April 2012 9:03:56 am Lisi wrote: > > > Hello, all! > > > > > > I am trying to install Trinity 3.5.12 on Squeeze, with LXDE already > > > installed, (sources.list below). > > > > > > Having edited my sources.list, I then: > > > # apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net > > > --recv-keys 2B8638D0 # aptitude update > > > # aptitude install desktop-base-trinity kde-trinity > > > > > > I got a long list of unsatisfied dependencies and a suggested > > > resolution. I tried, as I usually do, to see what was unresolved and > > > what I wanted to do about it, but this proved so difficult in LXDE's > > > terminal that I finally decided to install whatever it would install, > > > and take it from there. > > > > > > It installed nothing. (Or, as it put it 0.) > > > > > > I did exactly this a couple of weeks ago on another computer, and ended > > > up with Trinity 3.5.12 up and running. Can anyone spot what I have > > > done wrong this time? > > > > > > To make matters worse, I have to get this done by tomorrow. :-( > > > > > > Thanks. > > > Lisi > > > > > > <quote> > > > # > > > > > > # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.0 _Squeeze_ - Official i386 NETINST > > > Binary-1 20110205-14:34]/ squeeze main > > > > > > #deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.0 _Squeeze_ - Official i386 NETINST > > > Binary-1 20110205-14:34]/ squeeze main > > > > > > > > > deb http://mirror.ox.ac.uk/debian/ squeeze main > > > deb-src http://mirror.ox.ac.uk/debian/ squeeze main > > > > > > deb http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main > > > deb-src http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main > > > > > > deb http://mirror.ox.ac.uk/debian/ squeeze-updates main > > > deb-src http://mirror.ox.ac.uk/debian/ squeeze-updates main > > > > > > deb http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity/debian > > > squeeze main > > > deb-src > > > http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity/debian > > > squeeze main > > > deb > > > http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity-builddeps/de > > >bi an squeeze main > > > deb-src > > > http://ppa.quickbuild.pearsoncomputing.net/trinity/trinity-builddeps/de > > >bi an squeeze main > > > </quote> > > > > I would trim your sources list, do you need 'deb-src' entries ? You also > > have two security entries, i use the ~sqeeze/updates one. Sometimes a > > when a sources entry fails to connect you can get missing > > packages/depends. > > I don't think that having too many apt source entries is the issue; I have > even more repo entries than Lisi. And neither would a package manager > simply fail silently, leaving an unmet dependency because it can't find a > repo included in the apt sources; it'll say that it can't find that repo > and prompt you to fix the problem (we're not on windows anymore, where it's > normal for things to silently fail for unknowable and mysterious reasons). > > I've had similar problems installing 3.5.12 on squeeze recently too, and > I've had to mess about manually satisfying a few fundamental dependencies, > mixing packages from lenny and squeeze to get 3.5.12 running on squeeze. > > I just had a look to see exactly which version of the trinity packages that > [...]trinity/debian squeeze pointed to and they seem to be version 3.5.12 > but I seem to recall that, at one point, after 3.5.13 was released, it used > to point to the 3.5.13 packages. Also, when 3.5.13 was released, the > 3.5.12 repo seemed to have been rebuilt for lenny and not squeeze. > > I suspect therefore that the current default 'squeeze' repo has been > switched back to 3.5.12, because of the problems many of us experienced > with 3.5.13, but because it seems to have been rebuilt for lenny, after > 3.5.13 was released, it now contains dependencies from lenny which will be > unmet in squeeze. > > Perhaps Tim or one of the other devs knows exactly what has happened but I > don't think there's a quick fix for this; I think that for a painless > 3.5.12 install on squeeze all the 3.5.12 debs would have to built against > the current squeeze. Thanks, Lee. I always find oyur copmments very helpful. Trying to install 3.5.13 is going fine, so that was obviously the problem. All I have to do now, is find out how to install Slavek's patches. :-( Lisi