Bug#158382: marked as done (apt: Weird dependency problems)
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From: John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org>
Subject: apt: Weird dependency problems
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Package: apt
Version: 0.5.4
Severity: normal
Consider this log:
christoph:/home/jgoerzen# apt-get install gnucash
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:
gnucash: Depends: libwww-perl but it is not going to be installed
E: Sorry, broken packages
christoph:/home/jgoerzen# apt-get install libwww-perl
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:
libwww-perl: Depends: libmime-base64-perl (>= 2.1)
E: Sorry, broken packages
christoph:/home/jgoerzen# dpkg -l libmime-base64-perl
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| 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 libmime-base64 2.12-4 MIME/Base64 decoding for Perl
-- System Information
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Kernel Version: Linux christoph 2.4.19-rc1-ben0 #1 Mon Jul 15 21:11:39 EST 2002 ppc unknown unknown GNU/Linux
Versions of the packages apt depends on:
ii libc6 2.2.5-14 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone
ii libstdc++2.10- 2.95.4-11 The GNU stdc++ library
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Subject: Not a bug in apt
From: Thomas Hood <jdthood@yahoo.co.uk>
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This doesn't appear to be a bug in apt.
If I'm wrong, please forgive me and reopen
(and provide some more info).
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