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Re: [LUG] knoppix and galeon install.



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Ray Smith wrote:
> installed knoppix to my hard drive using the shell script and
it works fine.
>
> now I want to try putting on galeon and evolution as they are
not on gnome
> unlike most gnome distros.
>
> try running dselect to update and I find packages like
evolution and galeon
> in the list but when i try to apt install I get dependancy errors.

So you cut and pasted them - where exactly ? ;-)

> I though that apt was so great that it could resolve
dependancy problems by
> donloading needed packages automatically.

It has always done that for me so far (which isn't long
admittedly but I like playing with lots of little packages so I
make it work for a living), but I gather sometimes you have to
give it the right hints in the sources file.

Presumably there are some sets of dependency rules that are
impossible to satisfy completely - at which point something has
to give, and presumably the smart thing is not to break
installed software till someone who really knows what they are
doing tells apt to (that's what manuals are for - convincing
machines you have a clue - at least that is what I use them for).

> OBVIOUSLY I'm doing something wrong here.

Nah there is a cast of thousands of suspects - mainly Debian
package maintainers - you're just #1 on the list.

> Currently re-installing mandrake as knoppix is so easy to put
back on at a
> later date anyway !

So it won't take long to show us the errors?
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