getting dependency errors on libmysqlclient install

[dagg]

im getting the following error during the debian 4 install walkthrough

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
libmysqlclient15-dev: Depends: zlib1g-dev but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages


what i dont get is the following:
just for kicks i tried installing zlib1g-dev via apt-get and got the following

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
zlib1g-dev: Depends: zlib1g (= 1:1.2.3-13) but 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-7ubuntu1 is to be installed
Depends: libc6-dev but it is not going to be installed or
libc-dev

im running debian 4.0.... why is this referencing ubuntu?

something is very wrong and im not sure what exactly that is as im not very knowledgeable with linux... can someone lend me a hand here?

[till]

Please post the content of /etc/apt/sources.list

[dagg]

#
# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r3 _Etch_ - Official i386 NETINST Binary-1 20080218-14:15]/ etch contrib main


deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ etch main
deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ etch main

deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib

#deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r3 _Etch_ - Official i386 NETINST Binary-1 20080218-14:15]/ etch contrib main

i commented out the CD rom

[dagg]

also, i talked to one of my IS guys who has installed ISPconfig before and he said i could skip the dev packages... which i did.

*edit*
so i have gotten through the server config but i can see that i cant actually skip the dev packages as they are required for the install.

so now im stuck until i solve the problem of why im having dependency problems

[till]

The dev packages wont be listed in the guide if they can be skipped.

The sources list looks correct.

Please run:

apt-get update
apt-get -u upgrade

and then try again:

apt-get install libmysqlclient15-dev

[dagg]

i have already done the update and upgrade... getting the same thing.

Went back to my IS guy (who unfortunately didnt have time to work on any of this at the time) and he says that i dont have ANY dev packages installed and thats where the problem is coming from.

this was a base install of debian4.0...

if thats the case, how do i get the dev packages installed?

[till]

The current problem is not that no dev packages are installed, the problem is the installation of the dev packages. Your linux system seems to be broken, it looks as someone installed ubuntu packages on it so the system is a mixed up ubuntu / debian system now which causes dependency errors.

Originally Posted by dagg

if thats the case, how do i get the dev packages installed?

apt-get install libmysqlclient15-dev

[dagg]

ok.. so other than just using apt-get to try and get the package, how do i fix the dependency problems? apt-get is not going to work in this case because of the messed up dependencies so mearly trying to apt-get the specific packages is not going to work.... the dependency problem and however this got messed up has to get fixed first

[falko]

Originally Posted by dagg

#
# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r3 _Etch_ - Official i386 NETINST Binary-1 20080218-14:15]/ etch contrib main


deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ etch main
deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ etch main

deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib

#deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r3 _Etch_ - Official i386 NETINST Binary-1 20080218-14:15]/ etch contrib main

i commented out the CD rom

Did your sources.list always look like that, or did you have some other repositories in it (like from Ubuntu)?