Re: Unmet dependencies Xfce4

[Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>]

On 2008-04-24 08:06 +0200, andy wrote:

> Can someone please advise on the best way to handle the following
> situation of unmet dependencies:
>
> $ sudo apt-get install xfce4-systemload-plugin xfce4-goodies
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... 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.
> The following information may help to resolve the situation:
>
> The following packages have unmet dependencies.
>  xfce4-systemload-plugin: Depends: libxfce4util-1 (>= 4.2.1-1) but it
> is not going to be installed
>                           Depends: libxfcegui4-3 (>= 4.2.1-1) but it
> is not going to be installed
> E: Broken packages
>
>
> This is on a Lenny machine.

I haven't investigated the situation, but in general it is better to use
aptitude rather then apt-get if you encounter such problems, because
aptitude is much more verbose about unmet dependencies and can try to
resolve them interactively.

Looking at packages.debian.org, xfce4-systemload-plugin depends on
libxfce4util4 (>= 4.4.1) and libxfcegui4-4 (>= 4.4.1) and has not been
upgraded since June 2007, so you probably have put some package on hold
or something like that.

Sven