Bug#102413: apt missing reason for not installing pkg
Package: apt
Version: 0.3.19
Severity: wishlist
I recently tried to install wine using "apt-get install wine" and I got
the following error:
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spacesmurf:/home/jab# apt-get install wine
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.
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:
wine: Depends: libwine (= 0.0.20010510-3) but it is not going to be
installed
E: Sorry, broken packages
spacesmurf:/home/jab#
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Now, when I see this message my instantanious reaction is: WHY isn't
libwine going to be installed? Is it because I haven't explicitly said so,
is there a lack of disk space or couldn't the package be found?
apt should always display a reason why things couldn't be done, for
example:
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Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
wine: Depends: libwine (= 0.0.20010510-3) but it is not going to be
installed due to bad weather conditions in Canada.
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uname -a reports the following:
Linux spacesmurf 2.4.5 #5 Mon Jun 25 23:46:27 CEST 2001 i686 unknown
My /etc/apt/sources.list looks like the following:
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deb ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/os/Linux/distributions/debian woody main contrib non-free
deb ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/os/Linux/distributions/debian-non-US woody/non-US main contrib non-free
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I have the following related packages installed:
libc6 2.2.3-5
dpkg 1.6.15
apt 0.3.19
//Andreas Bofjall <andreas@uv.ssf.scout.se>
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