DNS Installation error

[nidhintomson]

Hi All
I tried to install DNS on my Ubuntu Machine. It i Ubuntu 6.06. I followed the link http://howtoforge.com/linux_bind9_an...ing_nameserver


when i do apt-get install bind* it is giving the following error :



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:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
bind9: Conflicts: bind but 1:8.4.6-1 is to be installed
giflib-bin: Conflicts: giflib-bin
Conflicts: libungif-bin
libadabindx-dev: Depends: xlibs-static-pic but it is not installable
libbind-dev: Conflicts: bind-dev but 1:8.4.6-1 is to be installed
libungif-bin: Conflicts: giflib-bin
mew-beta-bin: Conflicts: mew-bin but 1:4.2-1 is to be installed
mew-bin: Conflicts: mew-beta-bin but 4.2.52-1 is to be installed
E: Broken packages


What could be wrong with my installation ? Please do help
Looking forward to hear from you

Thanks and Regards

Nidhin Tomson

[falko]

Please run

apt-get update

and try again. If that doesn't help - what's in your /etc/apt/sources.list?

[nidhintomson]

Hi Falko
I tried as you said. I run apt-get update. Then i tried apt-get install. But still i am getting the same error.

Heres my /etc/apt/sources.list




deb http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper main restricted
deb-src http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper main restricted

## Major bug fix updates produced after the final release of the
## distribution.
deb http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper-updates main restricted
deb-src http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper-updates main restricted

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the 'universe'
## repository.
## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the Ubuntu
## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as to
## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in
## universe WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu security
## team.
deb http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper universe
deb-src http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper universe

## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from the 'backports'
## repository.
## N.B. software from this repository may not have been tested as
## extensively as that contained in the main release, although it includes
## newer versions of some applications which may provide useful features.
## Also, please note that software in backports WILL NOT receive any review
## or updates from the Ubuntu security team.
deb http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper-backports main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper-backports main restricted universe multiverse

deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security main restricted
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security main restricted
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security universe
deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu dapper-security universe




Looking forward to hear from you

Thanks and Regards

Nidhin Tomson

[falko]

Maybe the dapper-backports repos are the problem. Please comment them out, run

apt-get update

and try again.