On Saturday, January 8, 2022 4:18:33 PM EST Mike Bird wrote:
On Sat January 8 2022 13:10:22 gene heskett wrote:
following along here Mike, but this s/b a separate thread as I have not been able to install anything trinity, I checked my repo list, looks good.
But I get to the second of the 3 commands above and get this: gene@coyote:~$ sudo apt --dry-run install libarts1-xine-trinity Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Reading state information... 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.
Hi Gene,
That can happen if the builddeps line is missing from your /etc/apt/sources.list
https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/Debian_Trinity_Repository_Installation_Ins tructions#Configure_the_package_manager
--Mike
And it was. That added quite a lengthy list of stuff. Thank you very much, Mike, now back to your regularly scheduled program. ;o)
Cheers, Gene Heskett.