Re: xlibs breaking dependencies
On Sat, 2003-07-26 at 00:03, Andreas Wüst wrote:
>
> Am Freitag, 25.07.03, um 23:39 Uhr (Europe/Zurich) schrieb Michel
> Dänzer:
>
> > On Fri, 2003-07-25 at 22:50, Andreas Wüst wrote:
> >>
> >> I wanted to install some X11 related packages from sid, but they all
> >> have broken dependencies ["( ... ) but it is not going to be
> >> installed"]. So far, so good. When following those dependencies, it
> >> ultimately leads to xlibs, where it reads:
> >>
> >> xlibs (> 4.2.0) but 4.1.0-16 is to be installed
> >>
> >> Huh, I mean, what should that tell me?? If doing an apt-cache policy
> >> xlibs, there is a 4.2.1-9 install candidate, and when checking
> >> http://http.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/x/xfree86/ there is
> >> obviously a binary available too. Furthermore, apt-get -u -t unstable
> >> install xlibs doesn't mention any problems.
> >>
> >> What is the problem? I am seeing this behaviour an all of my boxen, so
> >> it does not seem to be triggered by strange package combinations et
> >> al.
> >
> > Hard to tell without seeing exactly what you're doing and the full
> > output.
>
> Hmm, well, basically I wanted to do
>
> # apt-get -u -t unstable install gnome-session
>
> on one of my boxen (which is running woody ATM). This gets me a list of
> broken dependencies, and apt-get quits. Following those deps, I end up
> everywhere on said xlibs dependency (which, to be honest, I don't
> understand, why does it want to install 4.1.0-16 when it wants a
> version greater then 4.2.0 and such a version [4.2.1-9] is even
> available?).
Because you have an older version installed, and you don't tell it to
upgrade that. It works if you add xlibs on the install line, doesn't it?
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Earthling Michel Dänzer \ Debian (powerpc), XFree86 and DRI developer
Software libre enthusiast \ http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer
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