[sclug] Kismet on Ubuntu

[Simon Huggins]

On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 11:25:16PM +0100, Hamlesh Motah wrote:
> Can anyone give me some newbish advise on how I fix this "problem";
> 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.
> E: Unable to correct dependencies, some packages cannot be installed
> E: Unable to resolve some dependencies!
> Some packages had unmet dependencies.  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.

> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>   kismet: Depends: libgmp3 which is a virtual package.
>           Depends: ethereal-common but it is not installable
> root at carbon:/home/hamlesh #

What's in your sources.list?  Did you update first?

Simon.

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