I hate apt-get

[Lori Nagel]

I hate apt-get stuff.  I don't know what kernel you have.  I assume you probably 

are not using the libre-fshoppe kernel or something since you are installing 
proprietary software. 

I want to say go back to a red hat (rpm)  based distro. honestly, I completely 
broke my gnewsense package management  (meaning I can't install anymore packages 

period)  and I really have no suggestions except reinstall the kernel. (that I 
don't want to do right now, because I hope to complete alpha of wograld 
(www.wograld.org) before I die or get too demented to work on it.   I don't 
actually expect apt-get to work right or that you will be able to install the 
version of the program you want if you have an older version of a debian based 
distro (unlike rpm distros where you could just compile it from source as long 
as you don't need a package for the program installed)   I actually gave up on 
installing the latest battle for wesnoth on this system for similar reasons.