On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 12:44 -0700, Mike Hoy wrote: > synaptic does automatically resolved dependencies, but not all. > for example try installing FC3 and then install evolution or amule. > not gonna work. amule will require the libcurl.so.2 fix (see thread > about libcur.so.2) The libcurl problem occurred because (a) your configured list of repositories includes one with an FC1 or FC2 build of amule, requiring libcurl.so.2, and (b) your configured list of repositories did not include one with a suitable package containing libcurl.so.2 that did not clash with your already-installed curl package. This would have happened whether you were using yum or an apt-based depsolver like synaptic. The "smart" package manager may have been able to solve the problem by downgrading curl, but only if you had no other packages installed that depended on libcurl.so.2, which I think is very unlikely. Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
