openoffice / other broken packages in sid

[Tim Goodaire]

On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 08:14:40PM -0400, Tim Goodaire wrote:
> > Subsequently, I found other big packages with broken installs such as
> > the Gimp and Gnome. I tried a repeated install attempt after another
> > apt-get update with no luck. Any other Debian users experiencing a
> > pile of broken packages? Any suggested workarounds? I Googled around
> > but not sure why so much appears to be broken or how to fix.
> 
> This is something that I've hit a bunch of times while running Debian
> unstable. Generally, it's because "some required packages have not yet been 
> created or been moved out of Incoming." 
> 
> In my experience, problems like this in unstable are usually fixed within a
> day or two. It might be worthwhile for you to check the debian-user
> mailing list archives and see if anyone else is experiencing this
> particular problem right now.
> 
> Tim

I just remembered something. There may also be some breakage in Debian unstable 
currently due to servers being moved around [1].

Tim

[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2005/06/msg00016.html

> 
> > Thanks for any help... Daniel
> 

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