[sclug] Kismet on Ubuntu

[Will Dickson]

Hamlesh Motah wrote:
> 
> root at carbon:/home/hamlesh # aptitude install kismet
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading extended state information
> Initializing package states... Done
> E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

My guess would be that this is the critical line, with the other errors 
being ricochets. My guess would also be that you've inadvertently told 
aptitude to "hold" a package which it thinks is broken, thus preventing 
it from fixing it. (Aptitude is both feature-rich and reliable, but IMHO 
the UI leaves somewhat to be desired; it's easy to foul up.)

Have you tried using apt-get directly, ie. apt-get install kismet ?

Kynaptic is nice and easy to use, but can't handle the heavy lifting 
that aptitude can, so that probably won't help.

HTH

Will.