OK. Must not be my night or something. I had a longer spiel typed up about this, but Mozilla crashed and isn't restarting nicely on me. So I'm typing this up from Netscape 4.something on my home Linux box.

Peter showed me the wonders of the ways of Ximian's Red Carpet the other day. It appeared a bit flaky at work, but I was able to more easily work around it on my work machine due to a fat pipe. However, on my home machine with its wonderful 56k modem, I'm noticing its problems a bit more.

As you can see in [link|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=20281|My other post], I'm having RPM problems. I think the problems with Red Carpet might be related, but I'm not sure.

Anyway, I'm attempting to download the "gftp" package. I don't run an FTP server or anything, but I like having packages up to date, as it were. So, I selected the "gftp" package from the list inside Red Carpet. It's version 1:2.0.8-ximian.2, containing "security update, other bugfixes." That's the only package I have selected. When I click the "Update Packages" button, I get the following:

Red Carpet was unable to successfully locate all the necessary
files to complete this request. The errors and conflicts that
occured are listed here, along with a suggested action to take.

Failed Dependencies\t\t
Package gnome-applets needs package libxml which cannot be 
found.
Package libxml-devel needs package libxml equal to version 
1.8.15 which cannot be found.
Package rpmfind needs package libxml greater than or equal to
version 1.8.7 which cannot be found.
Package pan needs package libxml greater than or equal to version 
1.8.11 which cannot be found.
Package gnome-print needs package libxml which cannot be found.
Package libxml needs package libxml equal to version 1:1.8.16-2
which cannot be found.

Why, oh why, am I getting dependency errors for all these packages (like pan?!) when I just want to update gftp? And what's with libxml having a dependency on libxml itself?

Karsten et al, no comments from the peanut gallery about apt-get. :-P

(Edit: What Scott said.)

Red Carpet was unable to successfully locate all the necessary files to complete this request. The errors and conflicts that occured are listed here, along with a suggested action to take.

Failed Dependencies		
Package gnome-applets needs package libxml which cannot be found.
Package libxml-devel needs package libxml equal to version 1.8.15 which cannot be found.
Package rpmfind needs package libxml greater than or equal to version 1.8.7 which cannot be found.
Package pan needs package libxml greater than or equal to version 1.8.11 which cannot be found.
Package gnome-print needs package libxml which cannot be found.
Package libxml needs package libxml equal to version 1:1.8.16-2 which cannot be found.