Sounds like you need to run

apt-get -f

Something seems corrupted!

You might also want to try apt-get check - this might give you some
further clues about what's going on.

Chris

SL wrote:
> I installed some software using synaptic. After I was done, everything
> worked fine. But after my next reboot, evolution was gone. Update shows
> it installed (I can't find it), and synaptic shows it not installed. When
> I try to reinstall it, synaptic gives me a bunch of dependencies, then
> refuses to install them. Here is the error message:
> Some packages could not be installed.
>
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> evolution:
> Depends: gnome-spell (>= 0.5) but it is not going to be installed
> Depends: libcal-client.so.0
> Depends: libcal-util.so.0
> Depends: libcamel.so.0
> Depends: libebook.so.0
> Depends: libedb3util.so.0
> Depends: libename.so.0
> Depends: libeselectnames.so.0
> Depends: libeshell.so.0
> Depends: libeutil.so.0
> Depends: libevolution-importer.so.0
> Depends: libgnomecanvaspixbuf.so.1
> Depends: libgtkhtml-1.1.so.3
> Depends: libical-evolution.so.0
> Depends: libicalvcal-evolution.so.0
> Depends: libwombat.so.0
>
> If I try to manually install gnome-spell, I get this:
>
> Some packages could not be installed.
>
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> gnome-spell:
> Depends: libgnomecanvaspixbuf.so.1
>
> I can't find libgnomecanvaspixbuf.so.1 anywhere.
>
> Any indeas how to get evolution back?
>
> Thanks
>