Depends: ant (>= 1.6) but it is not installable ???

[Flambo]

I have recently installed Linux Debian to facilitate the running of Sipxpbx from Sip Foundry.

After following the instructions to the point of installing the software:
sudo apt-get install sipxpbx sipxconfig

I get the following:

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:
sipxconfig: Depends: ant (>= 1.6) but it is not installable
E: Broken packages

I appreciate this could well be more of an issue for another forum related to Sipxpbx but rather hoping it isn’t and someone can help?

I have recently installed Apache2, thinking this maybe the problem – but this did not help.

Thanks.

[Daan]

I'm not really an expert, but I've encounterd the same problem before. Maybe it helps if you add something to your /etc/apt/sources.list. Do you have the non-free and contrib sections of the debian repositories enabled? Or maybe you can find the missing package at one of these sites:

http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages
http://www1.apt-get.org/search.php

Succes!

[Flambo]

Hi Daan,

Thanks for helping out. I have added the line: deb http://scm.calivia.com/pub/sipx/debian stable main
To the sourcelist, as directed by the instructions. The only thing I am not sure about is what package it is complaining as missing and hence know what to look for?

You will have to bear with me as I had never touched Linux until a week ago, so knowledge is pretty none existent – I am unsure what you mean by non-free and contrib sections of the debian repositories enabled?

[Daan]

You will have to bear with me as I had never touched Linux until a week ago, so knowledge is pretty none existent

I see.

By searching at http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages I found that the ant package is located in the contrib section of the Debian repository, which is not enabled by default. Enable it by editing /etc/apt/sources.list (as root):

sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

and change a line to look like this:

deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ sarge main non-free contrib

All you should have to add is "contrib", and while you are there you might as well add "non-free" too. Your file might say "stable" in stead of "sarge", and the url of the repository might be something slightly different, but you get the point...

[Flambo]

Top man, Superb - that worked a treat. Thanks very much!