Debian Wheezy

I am at a loss here, I tried everything I could think off, but nothing solved my problem so far.

What happened is that I somehow screwed up my installation of Koha (it used to run fine), so I decided to remove it and start from scratch. When trying to run the Koha Makefile.PL it told me it needed a specific version of Net-Z3950-ZOOM-1.16 (the installed version is newer) So I tried the manual way. Then it says it wants libyaz-dev.

Now it gets funny.

marty@debian:~$ sudo aptitude install libyaz5-dev
[sudo] password for marty:
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libicu-dev{a} libyaz5{ab} libyaz5-dev
0 packages upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 7,184 kB of archives. After unpacking 37.7 MB will be used.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
libyaz5 : Depends: libicu44 (>= 4.4.1-1) but it is not installable.
Depends: libmemcached5 (>= 0.33) which is a virtual package.
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:

Keep the following packages at their current version:
1) libyaz5 [Not Installed]
2) libyaz5-dev [Not Installed]



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It is asking me to keep the packages that I want to install that are not installed??? I tried it all different ways, and it keeps telling me I held broken packages. I am out of ideas.

I have tried;
sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get autoclean
sudo apt-get -f install
sudo apt-get -u dist-upgrade
sudo apt-get -o Debug:kgProblemResolver=yes dist-upgrade

and some aptitude things, but have found no solution

So you've tried apt-get everything except apt-get install libyaz5-dev?

Yes, I have tried that first, but it tells me I have held broken packages, which is probably true, but I do not seem to be able to correct the problem

I would find out why libicu44 isn't installable. Is it not available? Or does it not have dependencies that can't be met. Is your /etc/apt/sources.list still using Squeeze (old stable), as that was the last release that included that package.

I think what happened was that the original installation of koha was done on Debian Squeeze, I later upgraded to Wheezy, and so there might have been some things left from Squeeze maybe?

marty@debian:~$ sudo apt-get install libicu44
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package libicu44 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 'libicu44' has no installation candidate

You could either go here, manually download the file, and use dpkg -i to install it (assuming that you have the dependencies already installed). Or add the Squeeze repository back to your sources.list, so libicu44 will be available to apt-get (or aptitude).

Remember you can always "apt-get -s install <name of package>" to see what would happen before actually doing it.

Thanks, I added Squeeze repositories back to sources.list, and that seems to have helped, at least it is installing packages now.
Thank you very much, it seems rather simple in retrospect, but I was not thinking about that.

https://packages.debian.org/wheezy/libicu48
https://packages.debian.org/wheezy/libyaz4-dev