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Re: apt-get won't install package



on Sun, May 20, 2001 at 08:05:36PM -0500, Timmy Douglas (tdouglas@home.com) wrote:
> 
> (please CC me replys if possible)
> 
> root:~# apt-get install gnome-guile
> 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:
> 
> Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
>   gnome-guile: Depends: libguilegtk0 (= 1.0.1.cvs.19991112-2) but it
>   is not going to be installed
>                Depends: libguilegtk0 (>= 1.0.1.cvs.19991112-2) but it
>                is not going to be installed
> E: Sorry, broken packages

You can try --force-depends.

If that doesn't work, you can (manually) edit the package dependency
information, particularly if the version of libguilegtk0 is close to the
one specified in the dependency, either in the debian package (unpack,
edit, and repack it) or in /var/lib/dpkg/status.

If you do chose to edit deps, make backups first.

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