Hi,
I'm trying to install libncurses5-dev an this is what I get:
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$ apt-get install libncurses5-dev
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:
libncurses5-dev: Depends: libncurses5 (= 5.2.20020112a-7) but
5.3.20030719-4 is to be installed
E: Sorry, broken packages
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I'm not using a mixed system (not intentionally!), but when I check
the policies for libncurses5 this weird output is what I get:
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$ apt-cache policy libncurses5
libncurses5:
Installed: 5.3.20030719-4
Candidate: 5.3.20030719-4
Version Table:
*** 5.3.20030719-4 0
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
5.2.20020112a-7 0
500 http://ftp.de.debian.org stable/main Packages
500 http://ftp.uk.debian.org stable/main Packages
500 http://ftp.fr.debian.org stable/main Packages
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So, I don't understand what is going on here, how can it be that the
installed version is not on any of my sources??
Well, nevermind that what I REALLY want is to be able to downgrade all
the packages to stable once again, so that I can install ncurses (and
some others!!!). I tried pinning by creating a /etc/apt/preferences
file containing:
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Package: *
Pin: release a=stable
Pin-Priority: 1001
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but when I do:
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$ apt-get upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
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(even if I do a 'apt-get update' before).
Well, I don't know what to do (or what I might be doing wrong...).
Perhaps someone can help me. If you answer could you please CC to me,
since I am not a subscriber to the list.
Thanks a lot in advance,
Roberto.