On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 02:22:46PM +0100, Gavin Hamill wrote:
[1] root@rgb:~# apt-get install xserver-xorg xserver-xorg-core The following packages have unmet dependencies. xserver-xorg: Depends: x11-xkb-utils but it is not going to be installed PreDepends: x11-common (>= 1:7.3+3) but it is not going to be installed xserver-xorg-core: Depends: libfontenc1 but it is not going to be installed Depends: libxau6 but it is not going to be installed Depends: libxdmcp6 but it is not going to be installed Depends: libxfont1 (>= 1:1.2.9) but it is not going to be installed Depends: x11-common (>= 1:7.0.0) but it is not going to be installed
All the Depends: packages are /already/ installed and meet those version requirements!
may be a forced purge/uninstall and reinstall of consistent Debian packages would help?
Are you suggesting to provide a tarball that I can 'tar xzf' into a freshly-formatted root partition (then run grub) ?
right. I would prepare it the next hours leave you a message with the URL where to download.
Cheers Thomas