[lug] can't install KDE on my Debian machine due to libasound1 - help!

[Nate Duehr]

One other thought.  Try using dselect instead of apt-get -- apt-get
screws up "suggests" and other dependency issues from time to time.  It
was never truly meant to be the "official" way to handle package
management on a Debian system, but people whine and complain about
dselect's user interface (without providing patches).  :-)

On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 09:40:58AM -0600, Ed wrote:
> Howdy all!
> 
> I have a laptop running the debian distribution.
> 
> I was trying to switch to kde but dselect came up with an
> error. Here's what happens when I try to install the kdebase-libs
> package:
> 
> 
> mikado:/etc/ppp# apt-get install kdebase-libs
> Reading Package Lists... 0%
> Reading Package Lists... 100%
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... 0%
> Building Dependency Tree... 0%
> Building Dependency Tree... 50%
> Building Dependency Tree... 50%
> 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:
>   kdebase-libs: Depends: libasound1 (>= 0.5.5) but it is not installable
> E: Sorry, broken packages
> mikado:/etc/ppp# 
> 
> WHen I try to get libasound1, I have no luck:
> 
> mikado:/etc/ppp# apt-get install libasound1
> Reading Package Lists... 0%
> Reading Package Lists... 100%
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... 0%
> Building Dependency Tree... 0%
> Building Dependency Tree... 50%
> Building Dependency Tree... 50%
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> Package libasound1 has no available version, but exists in the database.
> This typically means that the package was mentioned in a dependency and 
> never uploaded, has been obsoleted or is not available with the contents 
> of sources.list
> E: Package libasound1 has no installation candidate
> 
> Now what do I do?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Ed Hartnett
> 
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