This is a weird problem and I can't find the nerve right now to
figure it out. I could be convinced to claim this is a bug... We
have a system with sarge/sid, pinned at sarge, and using the Ubuntu
Xorg packages (Ubuntu archive is pinned at 50).
We want to install libqt3-mt-dev and get:
warrax:~# apt-get install libqt3-mt-dev
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
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:
libqt3-mt-dev: Depends: xlibs-static-dev (>= 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libxext-dev (>= 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libxrandr-dev (>= 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libsm-dev (>= 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libxmu-dev (>= 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libice-dev (>= 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libx11-dev (>= 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libxt-dev (>= 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: xlibmesa-gl-dev but it is not going to be installed or
libgl-dev
Depends: xlibmesa-glu-dev but it is not going to be installed or
libglu1-mesa-dev but it is not going to be installed or
libglu-dev
Depends: libxft-dev but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libxrender-dev but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libxcursor-dev but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages
I realise that this is not what APT usually does and that it is
probably a function of the version mix we caused. E.g. some X libs
are from Ubuntu, but with the Ubuntu archive pinned at 50, new
dependencies cannot be pulled in.
Nevertheless, I don't understand why APT trips. For instance, it
wants xlibs-static-dev (>= 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4) and says that "it is not
going to be installed"... well, install it then. This is Debian.
Pretty please. With sugar on top. You can, trust me:
warrax:~# apt-cache policy xlibs-static-dev
xlibs-static-dev:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-12.0.1
Version Table:
6.8.2-10 0
50 http://archive.ubuntu.com hoary/main Packages
4.3.0.dfsg.1-12.0.1 0
600 http://debian.ethz.ch sarge/main Packages
98 http://debian.ethz.ch sid/main Packages
See, 4.3.0.dfsg.1-12.0.1 is right there. So please.
The only way to get the package to install is to mention each of the
packages APT complains about on the command line:
apt-get install libqt3-mt-dev xlibs-static-dev libxext-dev ...
Well, guess what: I won't.
So if someone could explain to me what exactly is APT's beef,
I would be really grateful.
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