unmet problems with sarge

Xeratul · 12-24-2006, 10:03 AM

Why in sarge there is quite lot of unmet dependencies problems?

I have a basic sources.list for sarge
could someone post a working sources.list for having libxss1 ?

Thank you

Code:

 apt-get install libxss-dev -f
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:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  libxss-dev: Depends: x11-common but it is not going to be installed
              Depends: libxss1 (= 1:1.1.0-1) but it is not going to be installed
              Depends: x11proto-scrnsaver-dev but it is not going to be installed
              PreDepends: x11-common (>= 1:1.09) but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages

rickh · 12-24-2006, 11:01 AM

A sure way to break Sarge is to try installing packages from unofficial sources. If you want to do that, upgrade to Etch. If you want Sarge, leave it alone. "Stable" means just that. Don't add things from outside repositories.

Xeratul · 12-24-2006, 11:44 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rickh

A sure way to break Sarge is to try installing packages from unofficial sources. If you want to do that, upgrade to Etch. If you want Sarge, leave it alone. "Stable" means just that. Don't add things from outside repositories.

I messed up with repositories of sarge
I just reinstalled it

Would you have good repositories sources.list ?