Re: unmet dependencies: libcurl4-openssl-dev

[Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com>]

On Wednesday 04 February 2015 11:41:53 Sivaram Neelakantan wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 04 2015,Dejan Jocic wrote:
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> > aptitude why-not libcurl4-openssl-dev
> > i   task-kde-desktop      Recommends system-config-printer
> > i A system-config-printer Depends    python-cupshelpers (= 1.3.7-4)
> > i A python-cupshelpers    Depends    python-pycurl
> > i A python-pycurl         Suggests   libcurl4-gnutls-dev
> > p   libcurl4-gnutls-dev   Conflicts  libcurl4-openssl-dev
> >
> > That is what I get on Wheezy KDE.
>
> Which is *exactly* the same message for me too.  I did try to uninstall
> curl and reinstall it again but that didn't work.  I still got the
> same error as above.
>
>
> Any suggestions on how to proceed to fix it?

Do you need libcurl4-openssl-dev?  If not, have you tried just uninstalling 
it?

And come to that can anyone explain why a "suggests" is holding things up? 
Perhaps a change to aptitude's default settings to not hold up for suggests?

Lisi