Re: Problem installing libglu1-mesa-dev

[Olaf Reitmaier Veracierta <olafrv@gmail.com>]

Daniel Lidström wrote:
> (I've sent this mail to ubuntu-users as well, but have not got a reply yet.)
>
> Hi,
>
> how do I resolve this error?
>
> henrik@henriklaptop:~$ sudo apt-get install libglu1-mesa-dev
> [sudo] password for henrik: 
> 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.
>   libglu1-mesa-dev: Depends: libglu1-mesa (= 7.4-0ubuntu3.2) but 7.4-0ubuntu3.3 is to be installed
> E: Broken packages
> henrik@henriklaptop:~$ dpkg -l libglu1-mesa libglu1-mesa-dev
> Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
> | Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
> |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
> ||/ Name                       Version                    Description
> +++-==========================-==========================-====================================================================
> ii  libglu1-mesa               7.4-0ubuntu3.3             The OpenGL utility library (GLU)
> No packages found matching libglu1-mesa-dev.
>
> I am using Ubuntu 9.04, X86. Do I need to provide more information to get help here?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Regards,
>
> Daniel Lidstrom
> Stockholm, Sweden
>
>
>   
Download the package from http://packages.ubuntu.com/es/karmic/libglu1-mesa

Install with dpkg -i --force-depends-version 
libglu1-mesa_7.6.0-1ubuntu4_i386.deb

man dpkg
/force-things
            "Warning: These options are mostly intended to be used  by
             experts  only.  Using  them  without  fully understanding
             their effects may break your whole system."


Olaf.

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