apt-get and dependencies

FWSquatch · 02-01-2006, 02:37 PM

I'm pretty new at this and so far I'm loving the apt-get command. I was under the impression that it would find dependencies and then install the packages needed. I've been trying to install gnucash, and it's giving me all kinds of unmet dependencies:

Code:

You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  gnucash: Depends: gnucash-common (>= 1.8.12-6) but it is not going to be installed
           Depends: bonobo (>= 1.0.22) but it is not going to be installed
           Depends: gdk-imlib11 but it is not going to be installed
           Depends: libart2 (>= 1.2.13-5) but it is not going to be installed
           Depends: libbonobo2 (>= 1.0.22) but it is not going to be installed
           Depends: libdb3 (>= 3.2.9-23) but 3.2.9-22 is to be installed
           Depends: libgal23 (>= 0.24) but it is not going to be installed
           Depends: libgconf11 (>= 1.0.7) but it is not going to be installed
           Depends: libgdk-pixbuf-gnome2 (>= 0.22.0) but it is not going to be installed
           Depends: libgdk-pixbuf2 (>= 0.22.0) but it is not going to be installed
           Depends: libghttp1 but it is not going to be installed
           Depends: libglade-gnome0 but it is not going to be installed
           Depends: libglade0 but it is not going to be installed
           Depends: libglib1.2 (>= 1.2.0) but it is not going to be installed
           Depends: libgnome32 (>= 1.2.13-5) but it is not going to be installed
           Depends: libgnomeprint15 (>= 0.29-1) but it is not going to be installed
           Depends: libgnomesupport0 (>= 1.2.13-5) but it is not going to be installed
           Depends: libgnomeui32 (>= 1.4.2-3) but it is not going to be installed
           Depends: libgtk1.2 (>= 1.2.10-4) but it is not going to be installed
           Depends: libgtkhtml1.1-3 (>= 1.1.10) but it is not going to be installed
           Depends: libguppi16 but it is not going to be installed
           Depends: libgwrapguile1 (>= 1.3.4-5) but it is not going to be installed
           Depends: libltdl3 (>= 1.5.2-2) but it is not going to be installed
           Depends: liboaf0 (>= 0.6.10) but it is not going to be installed
           Depends: libofx2c2a but it is not going to be installed
           Depends: liborbit0 (>= 0.5.17) but it is not going to be installed
           Depends: libstdc++6 (>= 4.0.2-4) but it is not going to be installed
           Depends: libxml1 (>= 1:1.8.14-3) but it is not going to be installed
           Depends: libzvt2 (>= 1.4.1.3-3) but it is not going to be installed
           Depends: oaf (>= 0.6.10) but it is not going to be installed
           Depends: slib (>= 3a2-5) but it is not going to be installed
           Depends: guile-1.6-slib but it is not going to be installed
           Depends: libfinance-quote-perl but it is not going to be installed
           Depends: libdate-manip-perl but it is not going to be installed
           Depends: psfontmgr but it is not going to be installed
           Depends: x-ttcidfont-conf but it is not going to be installed
           Depends: libgconf11 (>= 1.0.9-7) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).

What is causing this? Are there some packages that I'm looking for that are not in the repository or is there something else that I'm missing?

ingvildr · 02-01-2006, 02:58 PM

first have you tried running apt-get -f install like it suggests and second what branch are you using sid, etch, sarge.

FWSquatch · 02-01-2006, 03:47 PM

Sorry about not being specific. Yes, I tried the -f and still got the same messages. I'm running Sarge and my kernel is 2.4. Here is my sources.list

Code:

#deb file:///cdrom/ sarge main

deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 r0a _Sarge_ - Official i386 Binary-1 (20050607)]
/ unstable contrib main

deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main

Maybe I need a different repository?

ingvildr · 02-01-2006, 03:50 PM

you need main contrib and non-free on all those lines

FWSquatch · 02-02-2006, 08:22 AM

OK, I put both of those things into my sources.list and I also tried running it with the -f in there. Same result. I have the .deb package of gnucash as well. I tried an install of it first and saw those massive dependency errors which is why I switched to the apt-get installation. Could that have caused a problem?

deroB · 02-02-2006, 08:30 AM

after adding non-free and contrib did you "apt-get update"?

also, if you downloaded the gnucash .deb from a testing/unstable repository this would(most likely) cause problems with dependancies.

esje · 02-02-2006, 09:50 AM

I'm only seeing one line with sarge, the rest is unstable. Unstable and especially contrib are known to have issues like these.

If you truly want to find out the exact package that is causing this, try to apt-get each of the conflicting packages one by one. Usually most of them are in conflict with one package and perhaps you can do something about that

FWSquatch · 02-02-2006, 11:58 AM

I went ahead and did apt-get remove gnucash and it said that it freed up like 15 MB so I assume it cleaned out the bad install from the .deb. This time when I ran apt-get -f install gnucash, I got this

Code:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  gnucash: Depends: slib (>= 3a2-5) but it is not going to be installed
           Depends: guile-1.6-slib but it is not going to be installed

It's down to 2 unmet dependencies so it looks like we're getting somewhere. I'll have to wait until I get home to apt-get slib because it said it was a massive package and my boss doesn't like me blasting our bandwidth all the time

. I'll let you know how it goes tomorrow. Thanks for all the help so far!

FWSquatch · 02-02-2006, 07:42 PM

Woohoo! It works! Thanks for the help guys!