[Wolves] Dependencies and Ubuntu 7.10

[Dave Morley]

On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 11:47 +0200, leei at webmail.co.za wrote:
> > On 07/11/2007, leei at webmail.co.za <leei at webmail.co.za> wrote:
> >
> >> > Hi Kevan,
> >>
> >> Thank you for your e-mail.
> >>
> >> No I have not changed anything in the repositories or changed anything
> >> in
> >> the system.
> >>
> >> Do you have any ideas.
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Lee
> >>
> >
> > Hmm, in that case no.  It is very odd.  Ok, now if this were me the
> > next step would be to check out the Ubuntu forums.  Just try a search
> > under dependencies and see if it flags anything up.  If not then
> > perhpas somebody more experienced than myself has a suggestion on here
> > or, try asking on the forum itself.
> >
> > Out of interest, what is it that you are trying to install that is
> > giving dependency hell?  Is it one program or many?  If it's many then
> > I'd say that it must be a setting that has, for reason, been
> > incorrectly set when 7.10 was installing.  It does sometimes happen
> > :-(  However, if it is one specific program then it could be a bug
> > with that.
> > --
> > ==============================================
> >
> > Kevan Farmer
> > Linux user #373362
> > Staffordshire
> >
> > Hi Kevan,
> 
> Thank you for your reply.
> 
> It is just when I am installing applications from the command line that it
> tells me that there are dependancies but if the application gets installed
> from the gui from the add applications section then that works. I wanted
> to install some applications for example the scanning software for my
> scanner needed glibc installed so I had to install that first then the
> software.
> I wanted to install Limewire so I had to install java manually.
> 
> Hope the above helps.
> 
glibc is installed by default however you probably needed the -dev file
which isn't.
Limewire isn't in the repo's and therefore would need you to install the
dependencies it needs first.
Files that aren't essential but tend to do something get listed in order
that you can include them in your install.
-- 
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