Re: Unmet dependencies Xfce4

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

Daniel Burrows wrote:
> 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
>
>
>   
Daniel

I followed your suggestions. This is the output for running aptitude 
install xfce4-goodies:

$ sudo aptitude install xfce4-goodies
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done
The following packages are BROKEN:
 libxfce4util4 libxfcegui4-4
The following NEW packages will be installed:
 hddtemp{a} libsensors4{a} libxfce4util-1{a} libxfcegui4-3{a}
 lm-sensors{a} mousepad{a} thunar-media-tags-plugin{a} xfce4-artwork{a}
 xfce4-battery-plugin{a} xfce4-clipman-plugin{a} xfce4-cpufreq-plugin{a}
 xfce4-cpugraph-plugin{a} xfce4-diskperf-plugin{a} xfce4-fsguard-plugin{a}
 xfce4-genmon-plugin{a} xfce4-goodies xfce4-mailwatch-plugin{a}
 xfce4-minicmd-plugin{a} xfce4-mount-plugin{a} xfce4-netload-plugin{a}
 xfce4-notes-plugin{a} xfce4-quicklauncher-plugin{a}
 xfce4-screenshooter-plugin{a} xfce4-sensors-plugin{a}
 xfce4-smartbookmark-plugin{a} xfce4-systemload-plugin{a}
 xfce4-verve-plugin{a} xfce4-wavelan-plugin{a} xfce4-weather-plugin{a}
0 packages upgraded, 29 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
Need to get 4046kB of archives. After unpacking 10.2MB will be used.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 libxfcegui4-4: Conflicts: libxfcegui4-3 but 4.2.2-1 is to be installed.
 libxfce4util4: Conflicts: libxfce4util-1 but 4.2.2-1 is to be installed.
Resolving dependencies...
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:

Install the following packages:
xfce4-systemload-plugin [0.4.2-1 (testing, testing)]

Keep the following packages at their current version:
libxfce4util-1 [Not Installed]
libxfcegui4-3 [Not Installed]

Score is 38


I've searched all over the place, but cannot find any reference to how I 
should interpret a score of 38. But given that there are still unmet 
dependencies and package conflicts, I am a little gun-shy to proceed 
without understanding more fully what will be the likely outcome, or a 
more sane workaround.

Any thoughts?

Cheers

Andy

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