Re: Chromium not installable on Testing
On 05/04/2014 05:17 PM, Carl Fink wrote:
> So a few weeks ago Chromium came uninstalled and couldn't be reinstalled.
>
> When I tried to install it I got this:
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> root@rocket:/data/vids# apt-get install chromium
> 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:
> chromium : Depends: libudev0 (>= 146) but it is not installable
> E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
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> A bit of investigation found that libudev0 is also not available in
> unstable. I figured this would be fixed quickly and was part of the natural
> growing pains of the Testing distro ... but it has been a while and hasn't
> changed.
>
> Before I file a bug, I thought I'd ask if my problem was universal, or
> specific to something about my system.
I can not upgrade chromium on my testing (AMD64) virtual machine too.
There is a new version of chromium in sid what has dependency of
libudev1 for AMD64.
https://packages.debian.org/sid/chromium
http://packages.qa.debian.org/c/chromium-browser.html
Best regards
Georgi
> Also, why does Chromium need udev? To detect webcams and microphones?
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> Thanks.
>
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