Packages don't install correctly using any method
Kubuntu 7.10 AMD64
I am trying to add various packages, but keep running in the problems. For random package it is unable to find dependent packages and thus errors out upon trying to install. This happens on just about any package I try to install. If I go and manually find the package at packages.ubuntu.com, download and install it then go back and try to install it works fine (provide there are no other absent dependencies). This is really driving me nuts. I thought the problem might be an issue with the repositories so I tried to find other repositories to add, but I'm having a problem with that too. Are there any other repositories for Kubuntu? Or is there another solution that I haven't thought of? Thanks. |
This is too general... pick one package, use standard repo setup. Attempt to install from CLI using
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install packagename copy the command and the entire output and paste it in reply. That way, we see exactly what you see. Also, copy and paste the result of "cat /etc/apt/sources.list". You are almost certainly doing something wrong, none of the packages in the repos have broken dependencies. The only time I've seen a message remotely as you describe, it turned out I wasn't online. If you seriously suspect the repos, then use the canonical ones... you can imagine what woulh happen if Mark Shuttleworth had trouble installing software! |
If you have at some points installed wrong version while playing with sources.list then your system is a bit broken...
And yes, your post is way to general for giving a conclusion. |
I hate it when this happens. It's working now. I don't know what I did, but it's working. I know I added the last two lines and did the sudo apt-get update and it works now. Thanks.
Code:
deb cdrom:[Kubuntu 7.10 _Gutsy Gibbon_ - Release amd64 (20071016.1)]/ gutsy main restricted |
You mean you added the canonical repos?
Possibly the packages you wanted to install were only available from there? Or depended on packages in there? BTW: have a look at system > administration > software sources ... Ubuntu users don't have to mess about with the sources.list file any more. (I have mixed feelings about this sort of thing.) Also look at: www.hbclinux.net.nz/ubuntu.html http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu:Gutsy ... for more on software installation. |
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