<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">----- Original Message ----<br>From: Dave Morley <davmor2@gmail.com><br>To: Wolverhampton Linux User Group <wolves@mailman.lug.org.uk><br>Sent: Wednesday, 7 November, 2007 11:38:50 AM<br>Subject: Re: [Wolves] Dependencies and Ubuntu 7.10<br><br><br>On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 11:47 +0200, <a ymailto="mailto:leei@webmail.co.za" href="mailto:leei@webmail.co.za">leei@webmail.co.za</a> wrote:<br>> > On 07/11/2007, <a ymailto="mailto:leei@webmail.co.za" href="mailto:leei@webmail.co.za">leei@webmail.co.za</a> <<a ymailto="mailto:leei@webmail.co.za" href="mailto:leei@webmail.co.za">leei@webmail.co.za</a>> wrote:<br>> ><br>>
>> > Hi Kevan,<br>> >><br>> >> Thank you for your e-mail.<br>> >><br>> >> No I have not changed anything in the repositories or changed
anything<br>> >> in<br>> >> the system.<br>> >><br>> >> Do you have any ideas.<br>> >><br>> >> Regards,<br>> >> Lee<br>> >><br>> ><br>> > Hmm, in that case no. It is very odd. Ok, now if this were me the<br>> > next step would be to check out the Ubuntu forums. Just try a
search<br>> > under dependencies and see if it flags anything up. If not then<br>> > perhpas somebody more experienced than myself has a suggestion on
here<br>> > or, try asking on the forum itself.<br>> ><br>> > Out of interest, what is it that you are trying to install that is<br>> > giving dependency hell? Is it one program or many? If it's many
then<br>> > I'd say that it must be a setting that has, for reason, been<br>> > incorrectly set when 7.10 was installing. It does sometimes happen<br>> > :-( However, if it is one specific program then it could be a bug<br>> > with that.<br>> > --<br>> > ==============================================<br>> ><br>> > Kevan Farmer<br>> > Linux user #373362<br>> > Staffordshire<br>> ><br>> > Hi Kevan,<br>> <br>> Thank you for your reply.<br>> <br>> It is just when I am installing applications from the command line
that it<br>> tells me that there are dependancies but if the application gets
installed<br>> from the gui from the add applications section then that works. I
wanted<br>> to install some applications for example the scanning software for my<br>> scanner needed glibc installed so I had to install that first then
the<br>> software.<br>> I wanted to install Limewire so I had to install java manually.<br>> <br>> Hope the above helps.<br>> <br>glibc is installed by default however you probably needed the -dev file<br>which isn't.<br>Limewire isn't in the repo's and therefore would need you to install
the<br>dependencies it needs first.<br>Files that aren't essential but tend to do something get listed in
order<br>that you can include them in your install.<br>-- <br>Seek That Thy Might Know<br></div><br><br>Hi<br><br>I have installed 7.10 a number of times now on different machines and no problems so far. I always do a fresh install and never and upgrade because of the problems inherent in upgrades. You can install the latest Java from application>add remove>ubuntu restricted.<br><br>Hope this helpes<br><br>Mo<br><br><br><br></div></div><br>
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