Hello,
I am running dpkg version 1.14.4.
I've had several repositories configured, and kept changing them for some
time because I had internet access problems. Anyway, the package list shows
a lot of uninstalled packages with no description information (don't
know if
dpkg-query -l behaves this way or if its garbage from older repositories)
When I tried to apt-get a package I got the following output :
oraculo:/home/dlsa# apt-get install terminal.app
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:
terminal.app: Depends: gnustep-back0.11 (>= 0.11.0) but it is not
installable
Depends: gnustep-gpbs (>= 0.11.0) but it is not going to
be installed
E: Broken packages
Then I ran a dpkg -C to get a list of broken packages and it showed me
nothing
I usually use synaptic to do package mgmt, and the error it shows me
when I try
to install it, is that this package is from a repository no longer in
the list, and that
some package that is installed depends on dependencies of it.
Is it possible to know which packages are blocking the installation of
this one ?
Is it possible to clean the package list from these packages that have
no know location but are on the list because of dependencies ? (maybe by
uninstalling the
ones that depend on them)
Many thanks
Daniel Santos