Re: Bug#46308: apt: vague message about conflicts/depends
On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, Josip Rodin wrote:
> Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
> wmsound: Depends: wmaker (>= 0.20.2-2) but it is not installed
> E: Sorry, broken packages
>
> Yeah, right. But, dpkg explained it:
It actually is supposed to say 'but it is not going to be installed'
The problem is that APT does not have the same view of the world as dpkg
does, when you install wmsound it really does install it but after it's
done that it finds out that things it needs are missing, so you get the
backwards message.
If you do 'apt-get install wmaker wmsound' then you get different message
that is closer to what dpkg shows. The problem is quite literally that
wmsound cannot find a version of wmaker that it is compatble which is
exactly what the error message says.
Jason
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