apt-get install HELP!

[red van man]

First time I've connected to broadband and it works a treat, zero setup required.  Except, that is, for apt (or Adept).  It keeps spitting out the following:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
gimp is already the newest version.
You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  libg2c0: Depends: gcc-3.4-base (= 3.4.6-1ubuntu2) but it is not installable
  libgtk2.0-0: Depends: libgtk2.0-common (>= 2.8.17-1ubuntu5) but it is not installable
               Depends: libgtk2.0-bin (>= 2.8.17-1ubuntu5) but it is not installable
  libpango1.0-0: Depends: libpango1.0-common (>= 1.12.2-0ubuntu3) but it is not installable
  libsdl1.2debian: Depends: libsdl1.2debian-alsa (= 1.2.9-0.0ubuntu2) but it is not installable or
                            libsdl1.2debian-all (= 1.2.9-0.0ubuntu2) but it is not installable or...

...you get the idea. (I tried installing libpango, gcc and friends manually but got sick of playing dependency-go-round.) Adept lists only the packages I already have, or shows packages I don't, like Firefox, greyed out.  Any ideas?
     

[arochester]

Re: apt-get install HELP!

Use "Synaptic Package Manager" for packages. It is by far the best.

Open a Terminal

Type (or copy)

sudo apt-get install synaptic

Then fully enable all repositories

[Rog131]

Re: apt-get install HELP!

Maybe you don't have all repositories enabled ?

Usefull:
Enabling Extra Repositories
http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/sources

If your sources.list is messed:
Sources.list generator
http://www.ubuntulinux.nl/source-o-matic

Here you can generate an ubuntu sources.list for your preferred set of repositories. Just tick all repositories you want. The default set is selected automatically.

From:
APT HOWTO
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/ap.../index.en.html

If an installation breaks in the middle of the process and you find that it's no longer possible to install or remove packages, try running these two commands:

# apt-get -f install
# dpkg --configure -a

And then try again. It may be necessary to run the second of the above commands more than once.