Re: Unmet dependencies Xfce4

[andy <geek_show@dsl.pipex.com>]

Sven Joachim wrote:
> 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
>
>
>   
As I only use apt-get, I don't see how I could have put a package on 
hold. Also, I was under the impression that one should not mix apt-get 
and other package retrieval systems for the reasons that these unmet 
dependencies seem to suggest.

So, might I merely go ahead and manually install these two missing 
libraries or is that likely to result in Xfce4 melt-down?

Cheers

Andy

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