apt-get problems
The package dependency situation on one of my boxen has gone bonkers.
Whenever I try to install a new package I get complaints like these:
$apt-get install subversion
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:
subversion: Depends: libldap2 (>= 2.1.17-1) but 2.0.23-6 is to be installed
Depends: libsvn0 (>= 0.26.0-1) but it is not going to be installed
E: Sorry, broken packages
Then I have to specify exactly what versions of libldap2 and libsvn0 I
want to install (and so on for any dependencies these packages might
have).
This is a mixed system with a /etc/apt/preferences looking like this:
Package: *
Pin: release a=stable
Pin-Priority: 999
Package: *
Pin: release a=testing
Pin-Priority: 555
Package: *
Pin: release a=unstable
Pin-Priority: 333
This wouldn't be a problem if it happened once every now and then but
it happens for almost any package I try to install.
Any usual suspects?
alex
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Alex Polite
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