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Can't install gimp from .deb package

Hello, I can't get the Gimp to install from a .deb package. This is what i get everytime i run apt-get:

Code:

root@deepfry:/# apt-get install gimp

Reading Package Lists... Done

Building Dependency Tree... 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.



Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that

the package is simply not installable and a bug report against

that package should be filed.

The following information may help to resolve the situation:



The following packages have unmet dependencies:

  gimp: Depends: libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.4.4) but 2.4.3-3 is to be installed

        Depends: libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.4.1) but 1.4.0-4 is to be installed

E: Broken packages

But everytime i run "apt-get install libgtk2.0-0 libpango1.0-0 gimp" i get:

Code:

libgtk2.0-0 is already the newest version.

libpango1.0-0 is already the newest version.

I've tried with -f and with -m and i still get the same thing.
Thanks for your help.

Re: Can't install gimp from .deb package

Quote:

Originally posted by friedknut
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
gimp: Depends: libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.4.4) but 2.4.3-3 is to be installed
Depends: libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.4.1) but 1.4.0-4 is to be installed
E: Broken packages[/CODE]

But everytime i run "apt-get install libgtk2.0-0 libpango1.0-0 gimp" i get:

Code:

libgtk2.0-0 is already the newest version. libpango1.0-0 is already the newest version.

I've tried with -f and with -m and i still get the same thing.
Thanks for your help.

You need sources entry for unstable in your /etc/apt/sources.list then use apt-get install libgtk2.0-0/unstable libpango1.0-0/unstable gimp and hopefully it will install if not and it still complains about missing packages then use package_name/unstable as an addition to the line. If you do not want to put sources for unstable in your sources.list then you have to wait until the packages needed enter testing.

Code:

>$ apt-cache policy libgtk2.0-0

libgtk2.0-0:

  Installed: 2.4.4-2

  Candidate: 2.4.4-2

  Version Table:

 *** 2.4.4-2 0

        600 http://ftp.de.debian.org unstable/main Packages

        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

    2.4.3-3 0

        990 http://ftp.de.debian.org testing/main Packages

Edit: If you do not have an entry for the unstable already and add it to your sources then you either edit or create the file /etc/apt/apt.conf and put these lines in it to prevent you running out of cache space when you run apt-get update to fetch the packages lists and to make sure the system knows you do not want to upgrade your enitre distro to unstable.

Code:

APT::Default-Release "testing";

APT::Cache-Limit 10000000;

[/code]

Thank you very much, that worked. I already had entries for unstable so i just had to run:

Code:

# apt-get install libgtk2.0-bin/unstable libgtk2.0-common/unstable libpango1.0-common/unstable libgtk2.0-0/unstable libpango1.0-0/unstable gimp

Quote:

Originally posted by friedknut
Thank you very much, that worked. I already had entries for unstable so i just had to run:

Code:

# apt-get install libgtk2.0-bin/unstable libgtk2.0-common/unstable libpango1.0-common/unstable libgtk2.0-0/unstable libpango1.0-0/unstable gimp

Your welcome you can also do it another way if say you want to install all packages from unstable with apt-get -t unstable package package1 ... .