Ah yes, the wonders of Debian.

Tell me, is there some way of operating the package manager where you 
*don't* have to waste hours of your life trying to figure out why it 
refuses to install the package you need?

I've tried several different ways, but I can't get any version of the 
package I want actually installed.

- If I try from KPackage, it downloads a heap of stuff and attempts to 
install it. Half way through, it tries to upgrade "libc6", and bombs out 
with an opaque error. (Some subprocess terminated with exitcode 1.)

- If I try through apt-get, I just get a message to the effect of 
"foo-123 requires bar-456 which won't be installed anyway". Um... so 
install it for me then? What's the problem??

- I can't bring myself to try it with dselect. It's just too painful.

I'm not sure what else to try here... I guess I could invoke dpkg 
directly. That'll be fun. :-/

I always hated this about Debian. There doesn't appear to be a simple 
way to make it do what you want. :-(

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