Hi, all.

Just installed my first Knoppix-to-HD, and man, was it slick! I've been a RedHat and Gentoo abuser for a few years, but was never able to get Debian to do an adequate install on its own. Knoppix made it easy.

But...

I'm trying to install Synaptic to GUI my apt-get installs, and I'm having a weird problem. I've performed an 'apt-get update' with the default source settings, and on my dialup it took awhile, but finished! Now, though, is where the problems begin...

Code:
root@sloppyseconds:/etc# apt-get -s install synaptic/unstable
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Selected version 0.45-1 (Debian:unstable) for synaptic
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:
  synaptic: Depends: libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.4.1) but 1.2.4-1 is to be installed
E: Broken packages
So. Should I force the issue? As you can see, I tried to force the /unstable option, but met with the same 'libatk' issue. If I try to do an 'apt-get -s upgrade libatk', I get 105MB of files that need updating first!!! Ouch...

If I'm not using the right commands for 'apt-get', please accept my apologies. Like I said, I've NEVER been able to run a Debian-based system, so I'm not used to doing much more than 'emerge sync && emerge synaptic'...

Thanks,
Dan

EDIT: I tried installing 'synaptic-debtags/unstable' instead, and received the same error as above...