[PLUG] apt-get / dpkg question

[Jeff Abrahamson <jeff@purple.com>]

I kind of feel sometimes like the PADS list is a big empty room,
there's so little traffic. So this time I'll ask a debian question
here.

Can someone help me understand what the problem is with the following?
(The meat of the problem is the line that says

  mozilla: Depends: libnspr4 (= M18-3) but 2:0.9.1-ximian.4 is to be installed
)


diderot:/home/jeff# apt-get install mozilla
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
  mozilla: Depends: libnspr4 (= M18-3) but 2:0.9.1-ximian.4 is to be installed
E: Sorry, broken packages
diderot:/home/jeff# 


Background: I tried to install Ximian GNOME using their go-gnome
installer. But it got all messed up and dpkg was inoperable until I
did an apt-get -f install to get rid of a bunch of stuff.

Ximian is not in my sources.list file, but it keeps rearing its head.

Thanks for any help.

-- 
 Jeff

 Jeff Abrahamson  <http://www.purple.com/jeff/>



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