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: # apt-get -S upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these. Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: Netscape6: Depends: libodbc.so but it is not installable Depends: libodbcinst.so but it is not installable E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f. hmmm... what if I tried to install a specific package? # apt-get -S install abiword Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these: Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: Netscape6: Depends: libodbc.so but it is not installable Depends: libodbcinst.so but it is not installable E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution). what does Netscape6 have to do with this anyway?!? let's try something else... # apt-get -S install synaptic Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these: Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: Netscape6: Depends: libodbc.so but it is not installable Depends: libodbcinst.so but it is not installable E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution). ...It starts to look like this will be the answer to everything I try from now on! And I don't want to do 'apt-get -f install' as it suggests, especially without understanding what it is I'm doing... I did a search through the list archive and I found some mentions of libodbc and similar problems, but nothing that would make sense to me, or suggest a solution... 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... --------------------------------------------------------------------- "The earth has enough for everyone's needs, but not for some people's greed." - Gandhi -- 2:01pm up 4 days, 15:25, 4 users, load average: 1.03, 1.07, 1.03--