Hi, I have this problem...... I CANT get Gnome or KDE installed on my system. I get dependecy issues all over the place.

Its really annoying, because i love Gnome and really wanna use it, but insteas i have wmaker installed only

Any anyone give me advice on how to install it?

My apt sources file is below....

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deb copy:///cdrom/ sarge main
deb http://apt.bxlug.be/ gnome2.4-sid/

deb http://debian.uni-essen.de/debian ../project/experimental main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
deb ftp://ftp.leo.org/debian/ testing main
deb-src ftp://ftp.leo.org/debian/ testing main

deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main

deb ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ unstable main
deb-src ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/ unstable main

deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ unstable main
deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ unstable main
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And this is the error i recive

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Reading Package Lists...
Building Dependency Tree...
Some packages could not be installed. 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.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
gnome: Depends: gnome-core (= 36) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: evolution but it is not going to be installed or
balsa but it is not going to be installed
Depends: epiphany-browser but it is not going to be installed or
galeon
Depends: gnumeric but it is not going to be installed

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I would be very happt at any help i can get from you.... oh and i have everything i can and searched the net. But please bare in mind that i am a

So please dont say RTFM cus i have done this

Hello londonboi,

I am a newbie, also. I'll tell you what I did, and you can try it if you want. I have KDE installed, though it's not yet configured as I would like.

I installed Debian Woody from the Debian GNU/Linux 3.0r1 Woody non-US Binary 1 CD using the bf24 option. Then before anything else, I changed /etc/apt/sources.list from stable to testing. Then I did as root
# apt-get update
# apt-get dist-upgrade

Then I ran dselect (which I don't like) and had it search for kde and let the rascal install almost everything it came up with. I didn't think I would ever get out of dselect, but I did eventually. Then it downloaded and installed for a while. I agreed with everything it suggested, and now I have KDE 2.2

The only thing I would do different is change sources.list to unstable and get a newer version of KDE from there. The comp that my wife and daughter use has Knoppix v3.3 and that KDE is much nicer than the version I got.

The next thing I did was apt-get mozilla from unstable, which gives you Mozilla 1.4-6, but KDE won't run it. The error says KDE can't find the mozilla executable, so I have to use the Konqurer web browser until I can fix that. Still, it beats the stuffings out of the demonic possessed Mirco$loth junk!

Hope this helps, or someone with more experience comes to your rescue.

Just remember, everything in these forums is just someone else's opinion. Learn who has a good opinion from experience.


Edit:

btw, you didn't say _how_ you tried to install (it looks like you chose) Gnome, but from reading your message, I think the command you typed must have been a bit unconventional. And, why did you use those particular sources in your sources.list file? That couldn't be something a newbie came up with on his own - where did you get that suggestion from? It looks like your sources.list file is so complicated, and narrow in areas, that you have confused the snot out of APT, and it can't get what you want with the restrictions you've place upon it. Just comment out all that junk and use one single source, from unstable if you desire, and see if it doesn't work than. And just ask for gnome, not some stipulation of gnome. Let apt do it's job the way it was designed

Mate, Thank you for your reply,

I am not a total newbie, which is why i have my apt sources they way they are...

You are so totally correct about confusing the hell out of apt, i commented out everything except the unsable Debian sources and Gnome is now downloading I type this

Thank you for your help...... Now all i need to do is work out how to get java installed, but i will play with that one

Happy Debian user
Aaron

Use this forum to do a search for java, and also do it at www.google.com/linux

I saw something about java somewhere this week, but I didn't bookmark it and so I can't tell you where it was located. There may be something in the Debian Installation manual that I gave you the link to find. If you look and can't find any information, post a new thread here and someone will probably come to your rescue.

I fixed my problems with KDE with just a little bit of work. The Mozilla version I downloaded was actually the Mozilla Debian Package 1.5-1 and it seems to have fixed a bug that I'd noticed from version 1.4-6, so that was nice. In order to get KDE to run Mozilla, I went to the Start Application icon and chose System -> Appfinder and that added 12 legacy apps, of which one was Mozilla. I'm using it now to reply to you.

And Mozilla uses SSL where Knoqueror doesn't, so that problem is fixed, also.

I installed hdparm and hwtools and put the customizations in /etc/init.d/hwtools, so now my hard drives are running faster and using udma5. Sweet!

Post back to let people know what worked for you. If you read Jeremy's post asking why people don't post, you'll see that many people search and find answers by reading, rather than just posting at the first sign of trouble. I'm not saying you did that, but I have done it in the past, and many of us do. We're human, after all!

Java's easy. Just go to the sun website, download the self-installing binary and run it. POC.