Re: Package installation problems after `apt-get update' (was: Handling apt-get, apt-cdrom, sources.list, cdroms.list)

[Liam O'Toole <liam.p.otoole@gmail.com>]

On Sat, 12 Aug 2006 15:44:54 +0200
Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all.
> 
> In order to install the kmobiletools package, which is not present
> in the stable repository, I added to my sources.list the following
> lines:
> 
>  deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian testing main contrib non-free
>  deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib
> non-free

Note the mismatch above. You are getting binary packages from testing
and source packages from unstable.

> 
> , then did
> 
>  # apt-get update
>  # apt-get install kmobiletools
> 
> , but the output was:
> 
>  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:
> 
>  The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>    kmobiletools: Depends: kdelibs4c2a (>= 4:3.5.2-1) but it is not
> going to be installed Depends: libqt3-mt (>= 3:3.3.6) but it is not
> going to be installed Depends: libxinerama1 but it is not going to be
> installed E: Broken packages
> 
> 
> 
> . I'm quite lost here, any suggestion?
> Thanks,
> Rodolfo
> 
> 

Try this:

    apt-get install kmobiletools -t testing

Beware! This will pull in various packages from testing in addition to
kmobiletools. Are you sure you want to do that? Instead, you might want
to consider compiling the package yourself, or seeing if it is
available from backports.org. Or wait until testing becomes stable :-)

-- 

Liam