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openbios-sparc is a suggestion rather than a recommendation of the qemu-common package in maverick: http://packages.ubuntu.com/maverick/qemu-common Marking this bug as fixed released. ** Changed in: qemu-kvm (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Medium ** Changed in: qemu-kvm (Ubuntu) Status: New => Fix Released -- openbios-sparc has no installation candidate https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/423910 You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. Status in QEMU: Invalid Status in “openbios-sparc” package in Ubuntu: New Status in “qemu-kvm” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Bug description: When installing Qemu through apt-get, openbios-sparc is recommended, but, Package openbios-sparc is not available, but is referred to by another package. This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from another source E: Package openbios-sparc has no installation candidate
