using/installing alien

[bobtcowboy]

<edit> typo in the subject.... :rolleyes:

ok...

so I added the following to my sources.list file


# Kitenet.net - home of Alien

deb http://kitenet.net/programs/code/debian /
deb-src http://kitenet.net/programs/code/debian /


and ran apt-get update, then apt-get install alien.

I get the following:


Rohan:/usr# apt-get install alien
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:
alien: Depends: debhelper (>= 3) but 2.1.12 is to be installed
E: Sorry, broken packages


I try apt-get insall debhelper and it then gives me the same message, but with two new dependencies...


debhelper: Depends: perl (>= 5.6.0-16) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: dpkg-dev (>= 1.7.0) but 1.6.15 is to be installed


now if I try apt-getting perl, it tells me that its going to remove 113 packages... including all sorts of xservers, all of my gnome core stuff... ie, sounds like a Bad Idea.

any ideas as to what's up?

[ 28 April 2001: Message edited by: bobtcowboy ]