Hello.
I posted this question a couple of days ago, but I guess nobody saw it. I do need an answer so I'm asking again.
I want to make Flash movies, so I downloaded f4l (a .deb from Sourceforge).
When trying to install the deb, apt-get said the dependencies were unavailable, so I added the following Debian repositories:
deb
ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
deb
ftp://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free
Then apt-get said it couldn't do it because of conflicts and I should try apt-get -f install.
That brought me this:
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sudo apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
libqt3c102-mt
Suggested packages:
libqt3c102-mt-psql libqt3c102-mt-mysql libqt3c102-mt-odbc
The following packages will be REMOVED:
f4l k3blibs kdebase-bin kdelibs-bin kdelibs4-dev kdelibs4c2 libarts1-dev
libarts1c2 libdbus-qt-1-1c2 libqt3-mt libqt3-mt-dev licq licq-plugin-qt
qt3-dev-tools
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libqt3c102-mt
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 14 to remove and 10 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 3045kB of archives.
After unpacking 61.4MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n
Abort.
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As you can see I aborted the operation pending advice because it looks like apt-get wants to remove half the system in order to install this one program.
Aren't these things needed for other apps? Would I dare let apt-get do this?
Thank you.
