I'm new to all this, but following the instructions I just managed to install apt-get on my system (suse 8.0). But it didn't take me long to run into a problem... apt-get update worked OK, so I tried:

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BTW, I do have the package providing libodbc.so (unixODBC) installed:

# rpm -q unixODBC unixODBC-2.1.1-111

Please help me to get my apt-get going! This was supposed to be easy...

libiodbc-devel and unixODBC-devel are mutually exclusive. You probably have unixODBC-devel installed with libiodbc. Try it the other way around. I have: libiodbc-3.0.5-151 libiodbc-devel-3.0.5-151 unixODBC-2.1.1-190 installed and all works well. If nothing else, "rpm --erase" the odbc packages and let apt-get resolve the dependecies for you. Like the error message says, "apt-get -f install" will usually fix things (if the system isn't too fscked up to begin with). -jrh