on Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 12:09:17PM -0500, Haines Brown (brownh@hartford-hwp.com) wrote: > I've looked at the APT manual and rummaged about on line, but can't > get a clear idea of just to do with "broken" packages. I get > the impression that the term "broken" implies some unresolvable > dependences, but I'm not sure what to do about it if the depencency is > uninstallable. > > Here's an example. I go to install libqt3-mt-dev. > > E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages > [The word "held" seems to suggest that the dependency is available, but > it is somehow "broken".] > E: Unable to correct dependencies, some packages cannot be installed. > E: Unable to resolve some dependencies! > ... > The following packages have unmet dependencies: > libqt3-mt-dev: Depends: libqt3-dev (=2:3.0.3-20020329-1) but it is > not installable. > > If I try to install ligqt3-dev, I can't do it because it has > uninstallable dependencies as well. What release? KDE3 is horribly broken under testing, and only somewhat less so under unstable. I'm not tracking it myself but have seen comments both on this list (recently by Colin Watson) and in the #debian IRC support channel. You may be able to address this by downloading the necessary version directly from a mirror site, or by pinning against the appropriate release. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Information is not power after all: Old-fashioned power is power. If you aren't big industry or government, you have very little power. Once they've hacked the electronic voting system, you'll have no power at all. - Robert X. Cringely
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