Re: virtualbox installs other backports packages and
Hi Anil,
I tried that in a virtual machine and there's no such problem here
with a freshly installed system, so I'm sorry I don't knowing what
could be bugging you.
Regards,
Aron
On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 9:12 PM, Anil Duggirala
<anilduggirala@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> Hello Aron,
> Thats what I thought, nevertheless, as soon as I try to install
> virtualbox, on a practically clean install of debian, and without having
> installed any other packages from backports, apt installs the backported
> versions of these packages.
> I did check the package page
> https://packages.debian.org/wheezy-backports/virtualbox , and if you
> click on the package libqt4-opengl for example, it takes you to the page
> relating to the backported package ( I thought this indicated, this is
> the package that would be installed, when virtualbox is installed).
> Can you help me with this APT pinning set-up, I dont know what that is,
> thanks,
>
> On Tue, Jan 27, 2015, at 04:57 AM, Aron Xu wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 8:42 PM, Anil Duggirala
>> <anilduggirala@fastmail.fm> wrote:
>> > virtualbox from backports is installing various packages from backports
>> > (qt4 libraries). I dont know exactly how, but this package is messing up
>> > my system, for example now, upon trying to install calibre I get:
>> > calibre : Depends: python-qt4 (>= 4.9.3-4) but it is not going to be
>> > installed
>> > E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages
>> >
>> > I have reinstalled my whole system twice due to this problem, can
>> > someone tell me anything about the virtualbox package in backports??
>> >
>>
>> There could be something wrong with your APT pinning set-up, current
>> version of virtualbox in wheezy-backports only have these stuff
>> related to Qt4 libraries:
>> rec: libqt4-opengl (>= 4:4.5.3)
>> rec: libqtcore4 (>= 4:4.5.3)
>> rec: libqtgui4 (>= 4:4.5.3)
>>
>> Qt4 packages in wheezy (non-backports) satisfy such Recommends
>> requirement well.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Aron
>>
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