apt woes

**Javasnob** · 11-03-2005

Hello everyone,

For some wierd reason, my apt's not working correctly. I can't pinpoint the problem, but hopefully this will help:

Code:

%apt-get install kde
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
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&#58;

The following packages have unmet dependencies&#58;
  kde&#58; Depends&#58; kde-core but it is not going to be installed
       Depends&#58; kde-amusements but it is not going to be installed
       Depends&#58; kdeaddons but it is not going to be installed
       Depends&#58; kdeadmin but it is not going to be installed
       Depends&#58; kdeartwork but it is not going to be installed
       Depends&#58; kdegraphics but it is not going to be installed
       Depends&#58; kdemultimedia but it is not going to be installed
       Depends&#58; kdenetwork but it is not going to be installed
       Depends&#58; kdepim but it is not going to be installed
       Depends&#58; kdeutils but it is not going to be installed
       Depends&#58; kdewebdev but it is not going to be installed
E&#58; Broken packages

When I did this for the first time a few months ago, it worked fine. What's going on?

Thanks for any and all help you can offer!

**farslayer** · 11-03-2005

Are you running unstable/sid by chance ?

if so this happens occasionally. give it a few days for the maintainers to update the packages on the repository and try again.. Odds are in a few days it will work fine, at least that's been my experience.

**antidrugue** · 11-03-2005

Yop, got the same problem with Debian Etch.

I had the desktop package installed (that contains only Gnome in Etch), and it was impossible to install KDE (same error exactly).

But, without Gnome, no problem, I could install KDE.

Weird...

Then again it is possible that I'm pulling the wrong conclusion from this situation...

**bryansmith** · 11-03-2005

Maybe they are upgrading KDE to 3.4.3. I would wait a while.

Has everything else worked fine?

Bryan

**Javasnob** · 11-03-2005

Yes, it's just KDE.

**Javasnob** · 11-08-2005

Ok, I've waited a few days, and although I've gotten over the loss of KDE (which I still can't get with apt), I would very much like the SDL development libraries. However, when I try to get those, this is what happens:

Code:

Rob&#58;/home/rob# apt-get install libsdl1.2-dev
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&#58;

The following packages have unmet dependencies&#58;
  libsdl1.2-dev&#58; Depends&#58; libxt-dev but it is not going to be installed or
                          xlibs-dev &#40;> 4.1.0&#41; but it is not going to be installed
E&#58; Broken packages

I've tried 5 or 6 different mirrors, but the same results every time. What am I to do?

By the way, I'm currently running Etch.
Thanks for any and all help you can offer!

**Javasnob** · 11-08-2005

Will no one hear my plea? =(

**Vergil83** · 11-08-2005

try running

Code:

apt-get -f install

Also, can you post your

Code:

 /etc/apt/sources.list

I know you said you tired different mirrors, but I just want to see

**bryansmith** · 11-08-2005

Have you tried using apt-setup to setup your sources.list? If so, then you should have a nicely formatted sources.list.

If not, then try (as root):

Code:

apt-setup

Bryan

**Javasnob** · 11-08-2005

I tried apt-get -f install and apt-setup, but to no avail. =(

Here's my sources.list, as requested:

Code:

deb http&#58;//security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free 

deb ftp&#58;//mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/linux/debian/ testing main
deb-src ftp&#58;//mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/linux/debian/ testing main

deb ftp&#58;//ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing main
deb-src ftp&#58;//ftp.debian.org/debian/ testing main

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