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puremetal
msg:3877844 | 6:59 pm on Mar 24, 2009 (gmt 0) |
Hi all, its been a while since I've posted on this site, largely because I took the plunge and moved from shared hosting to a dedicated server. I feel like I've been tossed in at the deep end, not knowing how to swim, but there's a lot of help and tutorials out there, so I'm doing OK. However, some things I just can't figure out. One of the most irritating things is how often I find there are unmet dependencies when I try to install new things. For example, I
tried installing, using apt-get, a number of packages, such as rkhunter, chkrootkit, mod-security. however, i continually get the same kind of errors. # sudo apt-get install rkhunter chkrootkit
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
You might want to run âapt-get -f installâ to correct these:
The following packages have unmet dependencies.
libcurl4-gnutls-dev: Depends: libcurl3-gnutls (= 7.18.2-8) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libgnutls-dev
Depends: zlib1g-dev but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libidn11-dev but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libkrb5-dev but it is not going to be installed or hurd but it is not installable
Depends: libldap2-dev but it is not going to be installed
rkhunter: Depends: mailx
E: Unmet dependencies. Try âapt-get -f installâ with no packages (or specify a solution). Can anyone clarify this at all? Using -f doesn't help, and it seems that each time I try to install any of those dependencies, yet more unmet dependencies are thrown up. Thanks
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graeme_p
msg:3878552 | 4:25 pm on Mar 25, 2009 (gmt 0) |
This should not be happening, I would guess something is wrong with an installed package, the package database or similar. Have you edited sources.list? Check its OK. There should be ways to clean up everything: I think apt-get clean removes downloaded packages (they might be corrupt). It should be possible to rebuild the package database: I do not know how. If you do not get an answer here try your distro's (which one is it?) forums.
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puremetal
msg:3878600 | 5:16 pm on Mar 25, 2009 (gmt 0) |
thanks graeme_p.... would apt-get clean remove any things like Apache/PHP/MySQL, etc? cos reinstalling and reconfiguring those would make my head explode, i think. its Ubuntu Server 6.06.2 LTS btw... i'll take a look round their forums, too, thanks
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encyclo
msg:3878637 | 5:48 pm on Mar 25, 2009 (gmt 0) |
It's not clear if you have tried the solution suggested by apt (it's not well-explained), which is to use -f but not specify any package to install: sudo apt-get -f install
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graeme_p
msg:3878847 | 10:17 pm on Mar 25, 2009 (gmt 0) |
No, it does not remove what is installed. It removes locally stored copies of the downloaded file (i.e. the .deb file), not the installed files. Incidentally I assumed that you had tried sudo apt-get -f install, but, as encylo says, it is badly explained and it is the first thing to try.
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puremetal
msg:3879322 | 3:12 pm on Mar 26, 2009 (gmt 0) |
encyclo, thank you! i used autoclean, followed by -f install and things seem to be fine now (so far) :D
i would say that it isn't clear about the -f install suggestion. i figured it meant to try apt-get -f install *packagename* for the specific package. it looks like a number of packages hadn't installed properly. you two just made my day :P
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