can't install emacs

[vst]

I can't seem to install the emacs package. When I try I get the following message:

spar:~# apt-get install emacs21
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:
  emacs21: Depends: libice6 (>= 1:1.0.0) but 4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1 is to be installed
E: Broken packages

Does anyone know what the problem could be?

Thanks,
vst

[Vergil83]

are you using stable, testing, unstable?
It doesn't seem to be broken on testing or unstable unless you are using m68k
http://qa.debian.org/debcheck.php?di...ackage=emacs21
http://qa.debian.org/debcheck.php?di...ackage=emacs21

[vst]

I found that adding the following line to my /etc/apt/apt.conf file solved all my problems:

APT::Default-Release "stable";

I guess I just needed to define the default release.

Thanks,
vst