Hello, I'm running Redhat Fedora Core with the apt-get off freshrpms.net

I tried to install the following application as you'll see in the command below, and I get depends libmagick.so.5 -- How can I resolve this? Will I have to download and compile libmagick?

I tried apt-get libmagick.so.5 -- nothing


Heres the log

[root@localhost /]# apt-get install transcode
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:
transcode: Depends: libMagick.so.5
E: Broken packages

try using this : "apt-get -f " then, upgrade, update, dist-upgrade. that way, apt-get will fix the broken dependencies. I was trying to get a media player and didn't have all the right dependencies and I have to use the "-f" to upgrade.

Yes, I tried dist-upgrade once, it ended up breaking my whole linux distribution


Is this command fixed, and safe to use, completley now? Or,,,?

have you tried yum for fedora? I haven't been sucessful with it, but hey... did you try the dist-upgrade wth the -f (force) or not?
and one more thing... do you have the gpg key for apt-get? sometimes that causes problems...