I am trying to upgrade my java2 and unixODBC with an "apt-get install java2 unixODBC" command and this is what I get in return: thor:/home/brian # apt-get install java2 unixODBC Processing File Dependencies... Done Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: unixODBC 1 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove(replace) and 443 not upgraded. Need to get 24.5MB of archives. After unpacking 376kB will be freed. Get:1 ftp://ftp.gwdg.de SuSE/8.0-i386/base java2 1.3.1-372 [23.7MB] Get:2 ftp://ftp.gwdg.de SuSE/8.0-i386/base unixODBC 2.1.1-190 [731kB] Err ftp://ftp.gwdg.de SuSE/8.0-i386/base unixODBC 2.1.1-190 Data socket timed out Fetched 23.7MB in 2h0m0s (3296B/s) Failed to fetch ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/apt/SuSE/8.0-i386/RPMS.base/unixODBC-2.1.1-190.i386.rpm Data socket timed out E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe try with --fix-missing? thor:/home/brian # apt-get unixODBC E: Invalid operation unixODBC thor:/home/brian # apt-get install unixODBC 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: java2: 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). When I try "apt-get -f install libodbc.so" I get: thor:/home/brian # apt-get -f install libodbc.so Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Package libodbc.so has no available version, but exists in the database. This typically means that the package was mentioned in a dependency and never uploaded, has been obsoleted or is not available with the contents of sources.list E: Package libodbc.so has no installation candidate On Friday 12 July 2002 02:16, Richard Bos wrote: - APT shows here that an rpm is not correctly build/created (java2/unixODBC) - and it is the task of the package provider to - correct this => tell SuSE - (sorry)! I choose to wait for a response from SuSE before I let loose, but if it #¤%* is #¤%*|+$! For anyone not having followed this thread, I am trying to install Mozilla 1.x with apt-get, but need to update/upgrade java2 and unixODBC. SuSE 7.3 AND 8.0 java2 and unixODBC pkgs. return the above message: Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: java2: Depends: libodbc.so but it is not installable Depends: libodbcinst.so but it is not installable E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f. Solutions/Explanations Please! Brian