[SOLVED] apt-get dependency problems

[robertanderson]

Hello
about the last month and a half or so I have been unable to upgrade certain packages due to the following errors when I try to upgrade to the new version of rhythmbox, deluge or install pidgin and several other programs I get the following error

Depends: liblaunchpad-integration1 (>=0.1.17) but it is not installable
Depends: libpython2.6 but it is not going to be installed

If I try to fix the dependency by doing an apt-get I get

apt-get install libpython2.6
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... 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:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
libpython2.6: Depends: python2.6 (= 2.6.2-2) but 2.6.1-3 is to be installed
E: Broken packages

so then I try to resolve the dependency with python 2.6

Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
python2.6 is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 5 not upgraded.

I check and Python 2.6 is already installed
I dont know how to fix this problem and have searched everything I can think of but am only finding this issue in Ubuntu Forums but no fix. I am running Debian 5.0 with everything updated.

any help would be much appreciated

Robert

[devils casper]

Hi and Welcome !

Does installation of any other new package work?

su -
apt-get install htop

Does it install htop?

[robertanderson]

Hello and thank you

it installed in perfect. It will install programs and upgrade just fine as long as the libpython and the others I was talking about aren't part of it. as far as I can tell the libpython and the liblaunchpad-integration1 (>=0.1.17) are whats missing and I cant get them to install for some reason. Python2.6 is there as well as 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, and 3.1

in the past I have been able to just follow the dependency tree and fix the problems myself. I would say Im a newbie at this (2 months on Ubuntu and 4 on Debian now and counting) but I think it probably goes without saying.
I verified that Python 2.6 is installed...so then moved to libpython2.6 which it says is the first dependency missing and get the message

Depends: python2.6 (=2.6.2-2) but 2.6.1-3 is to be installed

Every available version I can find of Python is installed including 2.6 and Im not seeing a 2.6.2-2 or a 2.6.1-3.

below is the apt-get readout from installing htop

thanks
Robert

apt-get install htop
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Suggested packages:
ltrace
The following NEW packages will be installed:
htop
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 5 not upgraded.
Need to get 57.1kB of archives.
After this operation, 201kB of additional disk space will be used.
Fetched 57.1kB in 4s (13.7kB/s)
Selecting previously deselected package htop.
(Reading database ... 213680 files and directories currently installed.)
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Processing triggers for menu ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ...
Setting up htop (0.8.3-1) ...
Processing triggers for menu ...
Updating Debian Packages of System Configurations (dpsyco).

[robertanderson]

I uninstalled python2.6 and then when I tried to add libpython2.6 it said I needed to install 2.6 as well so I let it...

then went online and found a download for the deb files for launchpad integration..installed them and everything is working fine now

thanks for the help

Robert