Re: eog on squeeze on powerpc has un-resolveable dependency on libgnome-desktop-2-7

[Rick Thomas <rbthomas55@pobox.com>]

On May 12, 2009, at 9:47 AM, Chris Bannister wrote:

> On Sat, May 09, 2009 at 05:31:40PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
> > greybox:~# aptitude -Pv safe-upgrade
> > 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:
> >  eog
> > 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not  
> > upgraded.
> > Need to get 1988kB of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
> > The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> >  eog: Depends: libgnome-desktop-2-7 which is a virtual package.
> > Unable to resolve dependencies for the upgrade (no solution  
> > found).The
> > following packages have been kept back:
> >  eog{a}
> [..]
> > Any clues?
>
> I'd try a dist-upgrade.

I did try that.  When I do "aptitude full-upgrade" it wants to remove  
gnome and all the hundreds of things that gnome drags in.  Needless to  
say, I didn't allow it to continue.

Rick