Getting dependency error when installing xserver

[bmalbert22]

Hello all.

I was trying to install gnome on my fresh install of Debian when i got an error saying that xserver was not installed. So I am trying to install xserver on my debian system and I am getting an error that I do not know how to remedy.


First of all when I run

"apt-get install xserver-xorg-core"

it gives me a dependency error saying

"The following packages have unmet dependencies:
xserver-xorg-core: Depends: xserver-xorg but it is not installable
Recoommends: xfonts-base but it is not installable"


When i run

"apt-get install xserver-xorg"

I get this error

"Package xserver-xorg is no available, but is reffered to by another package...

...however the following packages replace it:
xserver-xorg-core
E: Package xserver-xorg has no installation candidate"


So i tried to run

"apt-get install xserver-common"

and i get this error

"Package xserver-common is no available, but is reffered to by another package...

...however the following packages replace it:
xserver-xorg-core x11-common
E: Package xserver-common has no installation candidate"


So i try

"apt-get install x11-common"


and i get this

"x11-common is already the newest version"



WTF! Please help me

[reed9]

There is a metapackage just called xorg to pull in everything you need.

Have you updated your sources list? Try this (as root or with sudo, if you have it set up):

apt-get update && apt-get install xorg

If that fails, your sources list is probably incorrect. Post the file /etc/apt/sources.list