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Hi..just a quicky I've spent all day trying to install Gaim, with it's hundreds of broken dependencies. I'm getting close but I need the GTK+ toolkit. I found I need ...
  1. 05-24-2006 #1
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    Gaim and broken things

    Hi..just a quicky

    I've spent all day trying to install Gaim, with it's hundreds of broken dependencies. I'm getting close but I need the GTK+ toolkit.

    I found I need this as well
    You'll need to get the GLib, GTK+, Pango, and ATK packages from the above locations. You may also need some of the external dependencies that are mirrored in the dependencies subdirectory
    Why am I missing GLib? strange thing not to have...

    What a pain!

    Anybody know where I can get it??

    Thanks

    Jan

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    You could take a look at this thread, as it is pretty much the question:
    http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/lin...-svn-gaim.html
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    Hi.. I tried the first bit and got this error
    Code:
    The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  libgtk2.0-dev: Depends: libglib2.0-dev (>= 2.4.1-2) but it is not installable
                 Depends: libpango1.0-dev (>= 1.4.0-3) but it is not installable                 Depends: libatk1.0-dev (>= 1.6.1-2) but it is not installable
E: Broken packages
    Something seems to be wrong in my apt-get setup, but I have no idea what??

    I'm running Debian sarge if it helps at all
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    What do you have in your /etc/apt/sources.list?

    You should be able to install those libraries fine, unless you have a messed up sources.list.

    Anyway with not just install GAIM like that:
    Code:
    apt-get install gaim
    ?
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    Code:
    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:
  gaim: Depends: libgtkspell0 (>= 2.0.2) but it is not installable
E: Broken packages
    ???

    Something is most certainly wrong..

    I think this is messed up and needs things adding.. etc/apt/sources list

    Code:
    #deb file:///cdrom/ sarge main

#deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 r2 _Sarge_ - Official i386 Binary-12 (20060419)]/ unstable contrib main
#deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 r2 _Sarge_ - Official i386 Binary-10 (20060419)]/ unstable contrib main
#deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 r2 _Sarge_ - Official i386 Binary-9 (20060419)]/ unstable contrib main
#deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 r2 _Sarge_ - Official i386 Binary-8 (20060419)]/ unstable contrib main
#deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 r2 _Sarge_ - Official i386 Binary-7 (20060419)]/ unstable contrib main
#deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 r2 _Sarge_ - Official i386 Binary-6 (20060419)]/ unstable contrib main
#deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 r2 _Sarge_ - Official i386 Binary-5 (20060419)]/ unstable contrib main
#deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 r2 _Sarge_ - Official i386 Binary-4 (20060419)]/ unstable contrib main
#deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 r2 _Sarge_ - Official i386 Binary-3 (20060419)]/ unstable contrib main
#deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 r2 _Sarge_ - Official i386 Binary-2 (20060419)]/ unstable main
#deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 r0a _Sarge_ - Official i386 Binary-1 (20050607)]/ unstable contrib main












#deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib

deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 r0a _Sarge_ - Official i386 Binary-1 (20050607)]/ unstable contrib main

deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib
    Thanks for helping out here... I've had a superb learning curve today with this. I just seem to be missing something...
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    Quote Originally Posted by janrocks
    Code:
    #deb file:///cdrom/ sarge main

#deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 r2 _Sarge_ - Official i386 Binary-12 (20060419)]/ unstable contrib main
#deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 r2 _Sarge_ - Official i386 Binary-10 (20060419)]/ unstable contrib main
#deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 r2 _Sarge_ - Official i386 Binary-9 (20060419)]/ unstable contrib main
#deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 r2 _Sarge_ - Official i386 Binary-8 (20060419)]/ unstable contrib main
#deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 r2 _Sarge_ - Official i386 Binary-7 (20060419)]/ unstable contrib main
#deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 r2 _Sarge_ - Official i386 Binary-6 (20060419)]/ unstable contrib main
#deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 r2 _Sarge_ - Official i386 Binary-5 (20060419)]/ unstable contrib main
#deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 r2 _Sarge_ - Official i386 Binary-4 (20060419)]/ unstable contrib main
#deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 r2 _Sarge_ - Official i386 Binary-3 (20060419)]/ unstable contrib main
#deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 r2 _Sarge_ - Official i386 Binary-2 (20060419)]/ unstable main
#deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 r0a _Sarge_ - Official i386 Binary-1 (20050607)]/ unstable contrib main












#deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib

deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 r0a _Sarge_ - Official i386 Binary-1 (20050607)]/ unstable contrib main

deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib
    Thanks for helping out here... I've had a superb learning curve today with this.
    Wow, you're missing quite a few things in your /etc/apt/sources.list.

    You want to use Debian Sarge?

    It should look like that:

    Code:
    #Local Mirror
deb ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib non-free
#deb-src ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib non-free

#Security
deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free

#Multimedia
deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org/ stable main
#deb-src http://www.debian-multimedia.org/ stable main
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    Great..thanks, I'm on it now.. It's just the way it installed that's confused me.

    This should do the trick??

    Thanks again

    Jan
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    Once you corrected the /etc/apt/sources.list file, you need to update the repositories:
    Code:
    apt-get update
    You can make sure you are up-to-date too:
    Code:
    apt-get dist-upgrade
    Then you can just install GAIM:
    Code:
    apt-get install gaim
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    Thanks so much for the help there..It's worked like a dream. I'm very happy with this distro, It seems to suit my hardware very well.
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