Re: Ubuntu and Debian packages / 2013-09-27

[Philippe Roussel]

On Sun, Oct 06, 2013 at 01:39:52PM +0200, Markus Hitter wrote:
> > http://coyote.octets.fr/pub/gnustep/GPG-PUBLIC-KEY
> 
> Thanks. Accordingly, the sequence to add your repo is as following:
> 
> - - -
> For example, for precise x86 you can add this line to sources.list, in
> Synaptic or in System Preferences -> Software & Updates -> Other
> Software -> Add...:
> 
>   deb http://coyote.octets.fr/pub/gnustep/packages/precise/i386/ ./
> 
> Then run the following commands in a terminal:
> 
>   sudo true && \
>     curl http://coyote.octets.fr/pub/gnustep/GPG-PUBLIC-KEY | \
>     sudo apt-key add -
>   sudo apt-get update
> - - -
> 
> Perhaps it's worth adding this to your release note.

Good point.

> Doing the above and attempting to install gnumail.app leads me to the
> following:
> 
> $ LANGUAGE=en  # You see? A terminal can translate on it's own :-)
> 
> $ sudo apt-get install gnumail.app
> 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:
>  gnumail.app :
> Depends: addressmanager.app but it is not going to be installed
> Depends: gnustep-back0.22 (>= 0.22.0) but it is not going ...
> Depends: gnustep-base-runtime (>= 1.24.0) but it is not ...
> Depends: gnustep-gpbs (>= 0.22.0) but it is not going to be installed
> Depends: gnustep-gui-runtime (>= 0.22.0) but it is not ...
> Depends: libgnustep-base1.24 (>= 1.24.0) but it is not going ...
> Depends: libgnustep-gui0.22 (>= 0.22.0) but it is not going ...
> Depends: libpantomime1.2 (>= 1.2.0~pre3+snap20071004+dfsg) but ...
> E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
> 
> 
> Sorry for nagging so much, but I think it's important to get such
> details resolved. Typical distribution users don't expect to wrestle
> with Google and the command line for an hour or two, just to get a
> package installed.

Did you run 'sudo apt-get update' ?
What does 'apt-cache show gnumail.app' gives you ?

Philippe
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