VVDQ : Alpine on Ubuntu??

[Felipe Figueiredo]

Em Monday 07 January 2008 13:35:37 Beartooth Testbedder escreveu:
> 
> 	My apologies in advance for what must be a Very Very Dumb Question (VVDQ)
> -- one so dumb I don't even know if it's an Alpine Question, an Ubuntu
> question, or what -- nor where to look up an appropriate FAQ. (I'm just
> starting Ubuntu, having never run anything but RH, Fedora, or clones.)
> 
> 	I went to UW, downloaded a .deb for Alpine 1.0, and tried UW's
> instructions for installing it with "dpkg -i alpine_1.00_i386.deb"
> 
> 	That got an error message. I chewed on it, to no avail, while I did some
> 	other stuff.
> 
> 	Now I've gotten another error message, while doing something unrelated,
> obviously meant to remind me of the loose end. And I can't make head nor
> tail of it, either :
> 
> root at SblzUb:/home/btth# qtparted &
> [1] 32684
> root at SblzUb:/home/btth# qtparted: cannot connect to X server
> 
> 	[qtparted never did launch, and I eventually hit ^C]
> 
> [1]+  Exit 1                  qtparted 
> root at SblzUb:/home/btth# apt-get install qtparted 
> Reading package lists...
> Done Building dependency tree... Done
> qtparted is already the newest version. You might want to run `apt-get -f
> install' to correct these: The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>   alpine: Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.6-6) but 2.3.6-0ubuntu20.5 is to be
>   installed
> Depends: libssl0.9.8 (>= 0.9.8c-1) but 0.9.8a-7ubuntu0.5 is to be
> installed
> E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or
> specify a solution).
> root at SblzUb:/home/btth#
> 
> 	Having run Linux since RH7, I'm only too familiar with dependency hells.
> (Maybe Debian has a general solution??)
> 
> 	But I'm almighty leery of any kind of -f option, let alone an install
> command with no argument. Do I really want to do that?? What does it mean
> by "(or specify a solution)"??

Can't say if it's unrelated, because you never gave the alpine error message. 
In any case, there's a slightly older alpine version in the repository, did 
you try it?

What versions of libc6 and libssl0.9.8 do you have? What distribuition are you 
using? Feisty or Gutsy?

Why did you try to install qtparted when it was already installed? Have you 
fixed the dpkg database following the instructions you received 
(Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages)?

Please, try to be more informative.

regards
FF