>
> As you have seen aptitude will try to do more than just installing
> rsync, "apt-get install rsync" would have done just that and nothing
> more. Aptitude on the other hand knows there are problems with
> another package and will try to resolve it. it would have installed
> rsync (and upgraded Iceweasel) if you had said _yes_ to the first of
> the above *****questions****** but because you rejected the offered
> solutions aptitude aborted.
>
> Running aptitude full-upgrade might resolve the other dependency
> problems but I'm not sure why
>
> It will be better not to follow Adam's suggestion to download rsync
> and install with dpkg if at all possible.
John is quite correct dpkg is the last resort but sometimes it's easier
that way.
Are you bringing the problem machine to the next LUG meeting? and can
you wait that long to have it fixed?
--
Adam Trickett
Overton, HANTS, UK
When a Microsoft product is the lesser of two evils, you know for
sure that there's something fishy going on.
-- anon
