Re: unmet dependencies: libcurl4-openssl-dev
On Wednesday, February 4, 2015 at 12:50:04 PM UTC+5:30, Sivaram Neelakantan wrote:
> How does one go about fixing broken packages? I've recently started
> using debian and apart some fiddling to get the latest emacs24.4 on
> wheezy I have not done anything on the system. When I tried to
> install libcurl4, I get the following error.
>
> apt-get install libcurl4-openssl-dev
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> Some packages could not be installed.
>
> [snipped 5 lines]
>
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> libcurl4-openssl-dev : Depends: librtmp-dev but it is not going to be installed
> E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages
>
>
> Googling around and checking a few forums with various incantations of
> apt-get with autoremove/clean/install/dist-upgrade didn't sort out
> the problem. I now have no idea how to fix this issue.
>
> I have a stock install of debian-kde iso and the current version seems
> to be
>
> cat /etc/debian_version
> 7.8
> uname -a
> Linux sivaram 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.65-1+deb7u1 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
> What should I do please to get the package installed?
>
> sivaram
>
> p.s first time user of debian
>
What happens if you (try to) manually install librtmp-dev ?
Note: apt-get, synaptic, and aptitude have different 'solvers' so its
good to have all three handy
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