Re: Unmet dependencies Xfce4

[Daniel Burrows <dburrows@debian.org>]

On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 07:06:15AM +0100, andy <geek_show@dsl.pipex.com> was heard to say:
> 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

  Have you tried resolving these explicitly?
  
    apt-get install xfce4-systemload-plugin xfce4-goodies \
                    libxfce4util-1 libxfcegui4-3

  Did you check what version of each package is available and that the
versions satisfy the dependencies?  e.g., using something like this:

    apt-cache madison xfce4-systemload-plugin xfce4-goodies

  Daniel