Bug#405245: "aptitude install texlive" fails w/broken resolution
Package: texlive
Severity: important
Running aptitude install texlive, (not apt-get) results in errors
that keep one from installing the complete package. I suspect it's a
problem with feynmf and prosper. Here's the message aptitude gives me:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
feynmf: Depends: texlive-font-utils but it is not installable or
tetex-bin but it is not installable
Depends: texlive-extra-utils but it is not installable or
tetex-bin but it is not installable
prosper: Depends: tetex-extra but it is not installable or
texlive-pstricks but it is not installable
Resolving dependencies...
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:
Install the following packages:
texlive-generic-recommended [2005.dfsg.2-4 (testing)]
texlive-pstricks [2005.dfsg.2-3 (testing)]
Keep the following packages at their current version:
feynmf [Not Installed]
Leave the following dependencies unresolved:
texlive-metapost recommends feynmf
Score is -279
Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?]
Since texlive is a large metapackage, it is very useful to be
able to use aptitude with it well; because that way if one
wants to remove the metapackage and all its dependencies, aptitude
can do that.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-3-686
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
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