Help with installing proggies

[David Fox]

On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 6:51 PM, J Bickhard <jbickhard at gmail.com> wrote:
> "Dependency is not satisfiable". What does this mean? I dl wine, and
> get the .whatever install package, double-click it, and this message

Looks to me that you have debs for Wine but not all the debs for the
other programs that Wine relies on. Those are called dependencies.
Often they are libraries the main program needs, but they could be
other support files as well.

This is where running aptitude install <package> is better than just
downloading a deb by itself. Aptitude will pick up all the needed
files and install them along with the package you really want.

If you use 'aptitude show <packagename> you'll see a complete
description of the package. Things listed under "Depends" are
dependencies that the program needs. If you haven't installed them
already (because some other program uses those same dependencies) then
aptitude will fetch them for you and install them.

Aptitude also has a download only function, which you could use for
example to download all the needed files on your parents' computer,
then put them on a USB stick and then install them later on your
computer on a later time.




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