Synaptic Problems?Forum: HD Install Topic: Synaptic Problems? started by: lwrver Posted by lwrver on Aug. 12 2006,18:05
I am new to DSL. I Successfully installed DSL to HD, and installed Synaptic OK from the menu. I then tried to download and install "Alien" via Synaptic, but it also automatically flags many files and programs for removal, even though all I selected was Alien and it's dependencies. If I allow it to proceed, it breaks the system, and will no longer boot. What causes Synaptic to decide for itself what to delete or keep. Do I have to manually flag everything I want to keep? I tried using apt-get first, and it couldn't even find the program I wanted from the repository.
Posted by brianw on Aug. 13 2006,02:06
dpkg/apt-get (Synaptic is a graphical front end for apt-get and apt-get is a console front end for dpkg) uses complex dependency and conflict information for this. If things conflict then something can't be installed (or must be removed). Synaptic assumes that you have checked the dependencies and what will be removed so when you say to proceed it assumes that you know what you are doing and you want something removed to be able to install what you are installing. I think you can force apt-get to ignore dependencies but something will break doing that.EDIT: There is an aliensdeb.dsl in the system section of the downloads so you can install alien from a mydsl package. |