On Sat, Dec 09, 2006 at 11:45:03 -0800, Bill Moseley wrote:
> Sometimes I get confused by what the package system is telling me.
> I'm not sure what's happening below.
>
> On Sid trying to update Gaim:
>
> $ apt-cache policy gaim
> gaim:
> Installed: 1:2.0.0+beta5-3
> Candidate: 1:2.0.0+beta5-6
>
> Ok, trying to upgrade:
>
>
> $ sudo apt-get install gaim
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> gaim: Depends: gaim-data (= 1:2.0.0+beta5-6) but 1:2.0.0+beta5-3 is to
> be installed
> E: Broken packages
>
>
> Looks like I could update gaim-data:
>
>
> $ apt-cache policy gaim-data
> gaim:
> Installed: 1:2.0.0+beta5-3
> Candidate: 1:2.0.0+beta5-6
> Version table:
> 1:2.0.0+beta5-6 0
> 500 http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main Packages
> *** 1:2.0.0+beta5-3 0
> 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>
> But if I try it wants to remove gaim.
>
> $ sudo apt-get install gaim-data
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... Done
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
> gaim
> The following packages will be upgraded:
> gaim-data
> 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 160 not upgraded.
> Need to get 5153kB of archives.
> After unpacking 4620kB disk space will be freed.
> Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n
> Abort.
gaim is currently not installable for me since it is still at version
1:2.0.0+beta5-6 while gaim-data is already at 1:2.0.0+beta5-7. (I use
ftp.nl.debian.org.)
My guess is: You did not run "apt-get update" recently enough so your
database of available packages is outdated. Even though apt thinks that
gaim-data 1:2.0.0+beta5-6 is still on the mirror, it probably finds
1:2.0.0+beta5-7 when it tries to actually download the package. It
cannot do anything with that until the gaim package catches up (which
will probably happen tomorrow).
--
Regards,
Florian
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