A couple of days a go I tried to install synaptic from apt sources and found out that it wasn't in universe or multiverse sections of ubuntu's official repositories. Kinda annoying but I stuck with adept.
So I figured I may as well install freenx. Added the seveas repo and got the message that the package expect was missing. Very bizzarre since all major distros seem to have it. So I grab it from debians website install it and i'm finally able to install freenx.
I figured the worst was over since the rest of the apps I want to use are pretty standard. So I start with a mainstream app like firefox, I get the following message:
Package firefox is not available, but is referred to by another package. This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from another source E: Package firefox has no installation candidate
Great so no firefox. I figure i'd install gambas and port over some of my vb apps. I get the following message: Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming.
Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that the package is simply not installable and a bug report against that package should be filed. The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies: gambas: Depends: gambas-gb-sdl but it is not going to be installed E: Broken packages
I never had any of these problems in hoary. I like breezy and all but the repo management has really gone downhill. Thank god for debian's website.