Problem installing alien on woody
Hi,
I'm trying to install alien on woody, but so far without success:
$ aptitude install alien
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree
Reading extended state information... Done
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
E: Unable to correct dependencies, some packages cannot be installed
E: Unable to resolve some dependencies!
Some packages had unmet dependencies. 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.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
alien: Depends: debhelper (>= 3) but it is not installable
How can I see what broken packages are held? 'aptitude -f install'
doesn't say anything about broken packages. Other packages install
without problems.
And how can I find out why debhelper is not installable? I
unsuccessfully tried to install it:
$ aptitude install debhelper
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree
Reading extended state information... Done
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
E: Unable to correct dependencies, some packages cannot be installed
E: Unable to resolve some dependencies!
Some packages had unmet dependencies. 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.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
debhelper: Depends: debconf-utils but it is not installable
... and for debconf-utils:
$ aptitude install debconf-utils
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree
Reading extended state information... Done
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
E: Unable to correct dependencies, some packages cannot be installed
E: Unable to resolve some dependencies!
Some packages had unmet dependencies. 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.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
debconf-utils: Depends: debconf (>= 0.9.59) but it is not installable
But debconf is already at version 1.2.35:
$ aptitude install debconf
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree
Reading extended state information... Done
Sorry, debconf is already installed at the requested version (1.2.35)
No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/e/d/v/action/?]
What steps can I take to diagnose and remedy the problem? Thanks!
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Roel Schroeven
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