Re: help: how to repair/install gnome?

[Robert Moonen <rmoonen bigpond net au>]

Yi Zhao wrote:
> hi, all:
> I use gnome 2.24 + debian in china, but when I do apt-get 
> dist-upgrade, I found my gnome has been removed, so I can't start my 
> gnome when I login to my system.
> when I try to use "apt-get install gnome", I found there is so much 
> package I can't installed because of the dependence, for example:
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>   gnome: Depends: gnome-desktop-environment (= 1:2.22.2~5) but it is 
> not going to be installed
>          Recommends: gnome-office (= 1:2.22.2~5) but it is not going 
> to be installed
> E: Broken packages
> now the gnome package in my system is:
>
> [ ~ ]$ dpkg -l gnome
> Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
> | 
> Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
> |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: 
> uppercase=bad)
> ||/ Name                      Version                   Description
> +++-=========================-=========================-==================================================================
> un  gnome                     <none>                    (no 
> description available)
>
> my question is: how to install gnome? I think there is some thing 
> wrong with my source.list, is there some other source.list can be used 
> to do this?
>
> thanks very much!!

Well, just installing the dependancies may do it,
so run apt-get update && apt-get install gnome-desktop-environment 
gnome-office