Re: Broken packages............

[Charlie <ariestao@skymesh.com.au>]

 On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 15:09:14 -0500 "Harry Putnam reader@newsguy.com"
 suggested this:

>Charlie <ariestao@skymesh.com.au> writes:
>
>>>You have libavdevice52 installed and held at version
>>>5:0.6.1+svn20101128-0.2 which is too old.
>>>See your held packages with "aptitude search ~ahold". Try removing
>>>your hold with "aptitude unhold libavdevice52" and then try
>>>reinstalling xvidcap.
>
>Looking like I may have some serious problems with held stuff too.
>
>I see a rather high number:
>
> aptitude search ~ahold|wc -l
>  140
>
>Surely that cannot be normal?
>Please do not reply to this thread... I don't mean to highjack
>Charlies' thread.
>
>See `Subject: Yikes 140 held packages'

No problem I think in repling to your post about this Harry. I think it
complements the thread rather than veers away from it?

Also thank you for that aptitude search command, I didn't know that and
just tried it on my system:

~$ aptitude search ~ahold|wc -l
0

As root:

:~# aptitude search ~ahold|wc -l
0

So something is telling me porkies and I think it might be synaptic.

The end result is I'm still unable to install xvidcap

I think it relies on old packages, some like libavdevice52 that are
unavailable in Wheezy? Or at least a search for it comes up empty?

The following NEW packages will be installed:
  xvidcap{b} 
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 1,227 kB of archives. After unpacking 2,855 kB will be used.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  xvidcap: Depends: libavcodec52 (>= 5:0.6.1+svn20110308) but 4:0.6.2-5
is installed.
           Depends: libavdevice52 (>= 5:0.6.1+svn20110308) which is a
virtual package.
           Depends: libavformat52 (>= 5:0.6.1+svn20110308) but
4:0.6.2-5 is installed.
           Depends: libavutil50 (>= 5:0.6.1+svn20110308) but 4:0.6.2-5
is installed.
           Depends: libswscale0 (>= 5:0.6.1+svn20110308) but 4:0.6.2-5
is installed.
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:

     Keep the following packages at their current version:
1)     xvidcap [Not Installed]                      

Never mind.

Thanks again for the aptitude search command.
Charlie
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