Re: package dependencies

[Florian Kulzer <florian@molphys.leidenuniv.nl>]

On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 16:46:34 -0500, Tony Heal wrote:
>
> I have a problem. If you look below you will see that webalizer is
> installed and has a dependency of either libgd2 or libgd2-noxpm. If
> you look further down neither libgd2 nor libgd2-xpm are installed.
> Apt-get -f install shows no packages in error. How can this be?

[...]

> Package: webalizer
> Priority: optional
> Section: web
> Installed-Size: 276
> Maintainer: Remco van de Meent <xxxxxx@xxxxxx.xxx>
> Architecture: i386
> Version: 2.01.10-2
                  ^^
note the version here, ending in "-2"

> Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.4-4), libdb3 (>= 3.2.9-16), libgd2 (>= 2.0.1) | libgd2-noxpm (>= 2.0.1), libpng2(>=1.0.12),
> zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4)

[...]

> sarge-plain:~# dpkg -l libgd2 libgd2-noxpm

[ snip: indeed, neither package is installed ] 

> sarge-plain:~# dpkg -l webalizer

[...]

> ii  webalizer          2.01.10-32
                                ^^^
You have a different (newer) version installed, "-32"

This versions depends on: ..., libgd2-noxpm (>= 2.0.33) | libgd2-xpm (>= 2.0.33), ...

You probably have "libgd2-xpm" installed to satisfy this dependency. (Looks
like "libgd2" was renamed at some point.)

-- 
Regards,
          Florian