Bug#80138: apt refuses to install a package because of a dependants dependancies, but installing the dependant fixes it
Package: apt
Version: 0.3.19
Severity: normal
Create a chroot from base.tgz. Then try to install build-essential.
script:
Script started on Wed Dec 20 20:16:34 2000
geisha [/root] # apt-get -s -o Debug::pkgProblemResolver=true install build-essential
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Starting
Starting 2
Package dpkg-dev has broken dep on perl5
Considering perl-5.005 0 as a solution to dpkg-dev 4
Holding Back dpkg-dev rather than change perl5
Package build-essential has broken dep on dpkg-dev
Considering dpkg-dev 4 as a solution to build-essential 9998
Reinst Failed because of perl5
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.
Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
build-essential: Depends: dpkg-dev but it is not going to be installed
E: Sorry, broken packages
geisha [/root] # apt-get -s install dpkg-dev
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
cpio make patch perl-5.005
The following NEW packages will be installed:
cpio dpkg-dev make patch perl-5.005
0 packages upgraded, 5 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Inst perl-5.005
Inst cpio
Inst patch
Inst make
Inst dpkg-dev
Conf perl-5.005
Conf cpio
Conf patch
Conf make
Conf dpkg-dev
geisha [/root] # exit
Script done on Wed Dec 20 20:17:00 2000
-- System Information
Debian Release: woody
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux geisha 2.2.18pre11 #1 SMP Mon Oct 2 17:40:32 PDT 2000 i686
Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii libc6 2.2-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libstdc++2.10 1:2.95.2-14 The GNU stdc++ library
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