Re: $ sudo apt-get install qemu-system

[Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>]

On 23.05.2012 13:22, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
> I am trying to install qemu on my stable + backports system but it
> keeps on failing with:
> 
> $ sudo apt-get install qemu-system
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... 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.
> The following information may help to resolve the situation:
> 
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>  qemu-system : Depends: openbios-ppc (>= 1.0+svn1047) but 1.0+svn640-1
> is to be installed
>                Depends: openbios-sparc (>= 1.0+svn1047) but
> 1.0+svn640-1 is to be installed

Please install these packages from testing/wheezy.  It is a known
issue, it has nothing to do with mentors but with me forgetting
to perform proper upload of these packages to bpo60.

Thanks,

/mjt