Bug#45980: apt: wrong error
Package: apt
Version: 0.3.13
Severity: normal
It seems apt prints a wrong error-message when it detects an
installation-request impossible. In this case it says python-base
1.5.2-6 is not installed, but it most definitely is installed..
Wichert.
root@lightning:/var/www/userdir-ldap# apt-get install python-gdbm python-net
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... 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:
Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
python-gdbm: Depends: python-base (= 1.5.2-6) but it is not installed
python-net: Depends: python-base (= 1.5.2-5) but it is not installed
E: Sorry, broken packages
root@lightning:/var/www/userdir-ldap# dpkg -l python-base
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-===============-==============-============================================
ii python-base 1.5.2-6 An interactive object-oriented scripting lan
-- System Information
Debian Release: potato
Kernel Version: Linux lightning 2.2.12 #1 Tue Sep 7 02:52:26 CEST 1999 i586 unknown
Versions of the packages apt depends on:
hi libc6 2.1.2-0pre7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and timezone
ii libstdc++2.10 2.95.2-0pre2 The GNU stdc++ library
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