Games, Drivers & all

[Reinhold Rumberger]

On Wednesday 03 March 2010, Jonas Norlander wrote:
> On 3 March 2010 13:18, Varun Jindal <seeu.varun at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Jonas, its not at all that I don't read the solutions given by
> > everyone o the mailing list. I thouroughly read every mail that
> > appears on this thread. However, the reason for reasking was
> > that when I attempted to install Wine, I got an error that was
> > somethink like: unresolved dependencies........could not find
> > libapt-inst-libc6.9-6-1.1 . That is why I had asked for another
> > Wine.deb download link hoping that it won't complain about
> > dependencies...
> 
> That's because almost all packages depends on other packages. In a
> console you can write "apt-cache depends wine" to get what
> packages wine depends on. Download and install them first.
> That's one of the reason using a package manager and a Internet
> connection make it so easy, it download all the dependencies to.
> 
> For me it gives (but could show other result for you):
> 
> jonas at Tor:~$ LANG=en apt-cache depends wine
> wine
>   Depends: wine1.2
> 
> jonas at Tor:~$ LANG=en apt-cache depends wine1.2
> wine1.2
<snip>

If he can't download software due to internet connection problems, 
how is he supposed to get the dependencies from the repo?
IOW, this isn't likely to work if he can't just apt-get install 
wine...

@Varun:
You can use http://packages.ubuntu.com to find the dependencies for 
most official Ubuntu packages.

  --Reinhold