Re: [Hampshire] Conflicting packages

Ah, OK... thanks, Peter.


--- On Sun, 5/10/08, Peter Salisbury <peterthevicar@???> wrote:

> From: Peter Salisbury <peterthevicar@???>
> Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Conflicting packages
> To: "Hampshire LUG Discussion List" <hampshire@???>
> Date: Sunday, 5 October, 2008, 8:34 PM
> 2008/10/4 B STEVENS <b.stevens611@???>:
> > Hi All
> >
> > I want to install Wine but I get an error.
> >
> > In Synaptic:
> >
> > wine:
> > Depends: libldap2 (>=2.1.17-1) but it is not
> installable.
> >
> > I'm assuming (dangerous!) that the conflict is
> with libldap-2.4-2 but when I
> > try to remove it, another 187 packages are selected.
> >
> > What am I doing wrong?
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Bryan
>
> You're not necessarily doing anything wrong. Sometimes
> versions of
> packages come out in an order that makes some of them
> uninstallable
> for a while. If you use aptitude you can examine why a
> package is
> uninstallable and ask it to suggest options for resolving
> the problem.
> Sometimes you just have to wait for the updated packages to
> hit the
> repos.