Broken Apt-Get DB in Debian

worm5252 · 12-14-2009, 12:25 PM

Hey guys,
I find a lot of times if I try to install something using apt-get I will get errors stating certain packages are required but will not be installed. This leaves me with unresolved dependencies and I have to rune "apt-get -f install" to fix it.

Any idea what could be the problem?

Machine Info:
uname -a
Linux debian 2.6.26-2-amd64 #1 SMP Thu Nov 5 02:23:12 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux
lsb_release -a
Distributor ID: Debian
Description: Debian GNU/Linux 5.0.3 (lenny)
Release: 5.0.3
Codename: lenny

Physical Specs:
AMD Phenom 9550 Quad Core 2.1GHz
4GB Ram
500GB HDD

the trooper · 12-14-2009, 12:29 PM

It would help to post some error messages and the contents of your sources.list.

AlucardZero · 12-14-2009, 01:18 PM

Kernel & release match. HW specs are not relevant.

Did you forget to post the exact commands you run and the error message? Also, post the contents of /etc/apt/sources.list and /etc/apt/preferences.

worm5252 · 12-14-2009, 01:46 PM

I didn't post the error before because I was drawing a blank as to what packages I had tried to cause the error.

Code:

debian:/home/jared# apt-get install kdenlive
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... 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.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  kdenlive: Depends: libmlt++3 but it is not going to be installed
            Depends: libmlt2 but it is not going to be installed
            Depends: melt but it is not going to be installed
            Depends: ffmpeg but it is not going to be installed
            Recommends: frei0r-plugins but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages
debian:/home/jared#

Here is my sources.list

Code:

# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 5.0.2a _Lenny_ - Official amd64 NETINST Binary-1 20090817-16:36]/ lenny main
# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 5.0.2a _Lenny_ - Official amd64 NETINST Binary-1 20090817-16:36]/ lenny main
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ lenny main
deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ lenny main
deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main
deb http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile lenny/volatile main
deb-src http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile lenny/volatile main
deb http://www.backports.org/debian lenny-backports main contrib non-free
deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org lenny main
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian sid main non-free
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian sid main contrib
deb http://www.lamaresh.net/apt lenny main
deb-src http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free

#wine
deb http://wine.sourceforge.net/apt/ binary/

#mp3 diags
#deb http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/repositories/home:/ciobi/ Ubuntu/

I don't have a preferences file. I have a preferences.d directory but it is empty. Here is a directory listing of /etc/apt/

Code:

debian:/etc/apt# ls -lR
.:
total 40
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec  1 18:20 apt.conf.d
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Aug 28 19:05 preferences.d
-rw------- 1 root root    0 Aug 28 19:52 secring.gpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1100 Dec  1 17:09 sources.list
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    0 Aug 28 19:52 sources.list~
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  788 Aug 29 16:07 sources.list.b
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 20  2009 sources.list.d
-rw------- 1 root root 1200 Aug 28 20:23 trustdb.gpg
-rw------- 1 root root 8182 Sep  1 23:39 trusted.gpg
-rw------- 1 root root 7235 Aug 28 20:23 trusted.gpg~

./apt.conf.d:
total 12
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  40 Aug 28 19:52 00trustcdrom
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  92 Apr 20  2009 01autoremove
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 182 Oct 12  2008 70debconf

./preferences.d:
total 0

./sources.list.d:
total 0

craigevil · 12-14-2009, 02:11 PM

First clean up your sources.list, get rid of the duplicate lenny lines and the lines for sid. I like to comment the lines in my sources.list, it helps to keep it a bit more organized. You also have two lines for wine.

Something like:

Code:

#Stable
#deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free
#Stable Sources
#deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free
#Security Updates Stable
#deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib non-free

# Debian Volatile http://www.debian.org/volatile/
# deb http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile lenny/volatile main contrib non-free

# Debian Stable Backports
#deb http://www.backports.org/debian lenny-backports main contrib non-free

#Debian-multimedia.org apt-get install debian-multimedia-keyring
# deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org lenny  main 

# WINE 
#deb http://www.lamaresh.net/apt lenny main

kdenlive isnt in stable you would have to install it from testing or backport it from sid yourself.
http://packages.debian.org/search?ke...ll&section=all

the trooper · 12-14-2009, 02:15 PM

Quote:

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.

Code:

deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ lenny main
deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ lenny main
deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main
deb http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile lenny/volatile main
deb-src http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile lenny/volatile main
deb http://www.backports.org/debian lenny-backports main contrib non-free
deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org lenny main
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian sid main non-free
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian sid main contrib
deb http://www.lamaresh.net/apt lenny main
deb-src http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free

#wine
deb http://wine.sourceforge.net/apt/ binary/

#mp3 diags
#deb http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/repositories/home:/ciobi/ Ubuntu/

There's your problem.
You've mixed Sid with Lenny,bad move.
Have you done any updates or installed packages since you added the entry for Sid?.

worm5252 · 12-14-2009, 02:26 PM

I updated my source.list like yours, which I find a much more readable format. Normally this is how I manage them but for somereason I never did it that way on this system.

Code:

#Stable
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free

#Stable Sources
deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free

#Stable Security Updates
deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib non-free

#Stable Source Security Updates
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib non-free

# Debian Volatile http://www.debian.org/volatile/
deb http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile lenny/volatile main contrib non-free
deb-src http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile lenny/volatile main contrib non-free

# Debian Stable Backports
deb http://www.backports.org/debian lenny-backports main contrib non-free

#Debian-Multimedia.org apt-get install debian-multimedia-keyring
deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org lenny main

#Wine
deb http://www.lamaresh.net/apt lenny main

# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 5.0.2a _Lenny_ - Official amd64 NETINST Binary-1 20090817-16:36]/ lenny main
# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 5.0.2a _Lenny_ - Official amd64 NETINST Binary-1 20090817-16:36]/ lenny main

#mp3 diags
#deb http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/opensuse/repositories/home:/ciobi/ Ubuntu/

Also I did run 'apt-get update'

worm5252 · 12-14-2009, 02:27 PM

Yes I have done install with sid and lenny.

the trooper · 12-14-2009, 02:29 PM

Quote:

Also I did run 'apt-get update'

Did you do this when you had the entries for Sid in your sources.list?.

worm5252 · 12-14-2009, 02:29 PM

hmm.. I updated my source.list and removed sid and structured it like suggested and tried kdenlive again and it installed no problem. I think that might have fixed it.

Code:

debian:/etc/apt# apt-get install kdenlive                                           
Reading package lists... Done                                                       
Building dependency tree                                                            
Reading state information... Done                                                   
The following extra packages will be installed:                                     
  dvgrab ffmpeg libavdevice52 libavformat52 libimlib2 libmlt++1 libmlt-data libmlt1 
  mlt swh-plugins                                                                   
The following NEW packages will be installed:                                       
  dvgrab ffmpeg kdenlive libavdevice52 libimlib2 libmlt++1 libmlt-data libmlt1 mlt  
  swh-plugins                                                                       
The following packages will be upgraded:                                            
  libavformat52                                                                     
1 upgraded, 10 newly installed, 0 to remove and 22 not upgraded.                    
Need to get 7,453kB of archives.                                                    
After this operation, 21.5MB of additional disk space will be used.                 
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y                                                    
Get:1 http://http.us.debian.org lenny/main libimlib2 1.4.0-1.2 [220kB]              
Get:2 http://www.debian-multimedia.org lenny/main libavformat52 3:20080706-0.3lenny1 [324kB]                                                                              
Get:3 http://http.us.debian.org lenny/main swh-plugins 0.4.15-0.2 [602kB]            
Get:4 http://http.us.debian.org lenny/main dvgrab 3.1-2 [133kB]                      
Get:5 http://www.debian-multimedia.org lenny/main libavdevice52 3:20080706-0.3lenny1 [29.8kB]                                                                             
Get:6 http://www.debian-multimedia.org lenny/main ffmpeg 3:20080706-0.3lenny1 [211kB]
Get:7 http://www.debian-multimedia.org lenny/main libmlt-data 1:0.3.0-0.1 [1,366kB]  
Get:8 http://www.debian-multimedia.org lenny/main libmlt1 1:0.3.0-0.1 [472kB]        
Get:9 http://www.debian-multimedia.org lenny/main libmlt++1 1:0.3.0-0.0 [47.1kB]     
Get:10 http://www.debian-multimedia.org lenny/main mlt 1:0.3.0-0.1 [63.9kB]          
Get:11 http://www.debian-multimedia.org lenny/main kdenlive 0.5.svn20080420-0.2 [3,984kB]                                                                                 
Fetched 7,453kB in 5s (1,258kB/s)                                                    
(Reading database ... 158741 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace libavformat52 0.svn20080206-17+lenny1 (using .../libavformat52_3%3a20080706-0.3lenny1_amd64.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement libavformat52 ...
Selecting previously deselected package libavdevice52.
Unpacking libavdevice52 (from .../libavdevice52_3%3a20080706-0.3lenny1_amd64.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package libimlib2.
Unpacking libimlib2 (from .../libimlib2_1.4.0-1.2_amd64.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package ffmpeg.
Unpacking ffmpeg (from .../ffmpeg_3%3a20080706-0.3lenny1_amd64.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package libmlt-data.
Unpacking libmlt-data (from .../libmlt-data_1%3a0.3.0-0.1_all.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package libmlt1.
Unpacking libmlt1 (from .../libmlt1_1%3a0.3.0-0.1_amd64.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package libmlt++1.
Unpacking libmlt++1 (from .../libmlt++1_1%3a0.3.0-0.0_amd64.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package mlt.
Unpacking mlt (from .../mlt_1%3a0.3.0-0.1_amd64.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package kdenlive.
Unpacking kdenlive (from .../kdenlive_0.5.svn20080420-0.2_amd64.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package swh-plugins.
Unpacking swh-plugins (from .../swh-plugins_0.4.15-0.2_amd64.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package dvgrab.
Unpacking dvgrab (from .../dvgrab_3.1-2_amd64.deb) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme ...
Setting up libavformat52 (3:20080706-0.3lenny1) ...
Setting up libavdevice52 (3:20080706-0.3lenny1) ...
Setting up libimlib2 (1.4.0-1.2) ...
Setting up ffmpeg (3:20080706-0.3lenny1) ...
Setting up libmlt-data (1:0.3.0-0.1) ...
Setting up libmlt1 (1:0.3.0-0.1) ...
Setting up libmlt++1 (1:0.3.0-0.0) ...
Setting up mlt (1:0.3.0-0.1) ...
Setting up kdenlive (0.5.svn20080420-0.2) ...
Setting up swh-plugins (0.4.15-0.2) ...
Setting up dvgrab (3.1-2) ...

worm5252 · 12-14-2009, 02:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by the trooper

Did you do this when you had the entries for Sid in your sources.list?.

Yes, The sid entries have been there sometime. In fact all the entries below sid were added after sid.

the trooper · 12-14-2009, 02:42 PM

That's a little worrying.
An easy way to check would be:

apt-get install apt-show-versions
apt-show-versions | grep sid

See if that comes back with sid packages installed.
I have an entry for unstable on my system,here's what i get:

Code:

ade@Pc1:~$ apt-show-versions | grep unstable
linux-headers-2.6.31-1-amd64/unstable uptodate 2.6.31-2
linux-headers-2.6.31-1-common/unstable uptodate 2.6.31-2
linux-image-2.6.31-1-amd64/unstable uptodate 2.6.31-2
linux-kbuild-2.6.31/unstable uptodate 2.6.31.2-1

worm5252 · 12-14-2009, 02:46 PM

Code:

debian:/etc/apt# apt-get install apt-show-versions
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... 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.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  apt-show-versions: Depends: libapt-pkg-perl (>= 0.1.21) but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages

the trooper · 12-14-2009, 04:10 PM

Well,your sources.list looks ok now.
Is there anything else with that error message?.
I think there is a fair chance you have some Sid libraries causing problems.

worm5252 · 12-14-2009, 04:25 PM

I am willing to say you are probably right. I know the sid source has been there for at least 7 months.

That is the only thing it says.

Here are some things I have done

apt-get upgrade

Code:

debian:/etc/apt# apt-get upgrade                                                     
Reading package lists... Done                                                        
Building dependency tree                                                             
Reading state information... Done                                                    
The following packages have been kept back:                                          
  mplayer                                                                            
The following packages will be upgraded:                                             
  cups openoffice.org openoffice.org-base openoffice.org-base-core                   
  openoffice.org-calc openoffice.org-common openoffice.org-core openoffice.org-draw  
  openoffice.org-gcj openoffice.org-help-en-us openoffice.org-impress                
  openoffice.org-java-common openoffice.org-kde openoffice.org-math                  
  openoffice.org-officebean openoffice.org-report-builder-bin openoffice.org-writer  
  poppler-utils x11-common xorg xserver-xorg                                         
21 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.                      
Need to get 102MB of archives.                                                       
After this operation, 467kB disk space will be freed.                                
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y                                                     
Get:1 http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/main poppler-utils 0.8.7-3 [232kB]    
Get:2 http://http.us.debian.org lenny/main x11-common 1:7.3+20 [343kB]               
Get:3 http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/main cups 1.3.8-1+lenny7 [2,053kB]    
Get:4 http://http.us.debian.org lenny/main xserver-xorg 1:7.3+20 [224kB]             
Get:5 http://http.us.debian.org lenny/main xorg 1:7.3+20 [27.2kB]                    
Get:6 http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/main openoffice.org-writer 1:2.4.1+dfsg-1+lenny3 [7,767kB]                                                                 
Get:7 http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/main openoffice.org-calc 1:2.4.1+dfsg-1+lenny3 [5,935kB]                                                                   
Get:8 http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/main openoffice.org-base 1:2.4.1+dfsg-1+lenny3 [3,027kB]                                                                   
Get:9 http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/main openoffice.org-base-core 1:2.4.1+dfsg-1+lenny3 [1,006kB]                                                              
Get:10 http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/main openoffice.org-gcj 1:2.4.1+dfsg-1+lenny3 [4,514kB]                                                                   
Get:11 http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/main openoffice.org-common 1:2.4.1+dfsg-1+lenny3 [14.5MB]                                                                 
Get:12 http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/main openoffice.org-java-common 1:2.4.1+dfsg-1+lenny3 [2,977kB]                                                           
Get:13 http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/main openoffice.org-impress 1:2.4.1+dfsg-1+lenny3 [918kB]                                                                 
Get:14 http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/main openoffice.org-draw 1:2.4.1+dfsg-1+lenny3 [3,022kB]                                                                  
Get:15 http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/main openoffice.org-kde 1:2.4.1+dfsg-1+lenny3 [505kB]                                                                     
Get:16 http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/main openoffice.org-officebean 1:2.4.1+dfsg-1+lenny3 [320kB]                                                              
Get:17 http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/main openoffice.org-math 1:2.4.1+dfsg-1+lenny3 [597kB]                                                                    
Get:18 http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/main openoffice.org 1:2.4.1+dfsg-1+lenny3 [275kB]                                                                         
Get:19 http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/main openoffice.org-core 1:2.4.1+dfsg-1+lenny3 [40.1MB]                                                                   
Get:20 http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/main openoffice.org-report-builder-bin 1:2.4.1+dfsg-1+lenny3 [1,153kB]                                                    
Get:21 http://security.debian.org lenny/updates/main openoffice.org-help-en-us 1:2.4.1+dfsg-1+lenny3 [12.6MB]                                                             
Fetched 102MB in 1min 47s (946kB/s)                                                  
Preconfiguring packages ...                                                          
dpkg: warning: obsolete option '--print-installation-architecture', please use '--print-architecture' instead.                                                            
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Preparing to replace x11-common 1:7.3+19 (using .../x11-common_1%3a7.3+20_all.deb) ...                                                                                    
dpkg: warning: obsolete option '--print-installation-architecture', please use '--print-architecture' instead.                                                            
dpkg: warning: obsolete option '--print-installation-architecture', please use '--print-architecture' instead.                                                            
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Unknown media type in type 'uri/pnm'

Unknown media type in type 'uri/rtspt'

Unknown media type in type 'uri/rtspu'

Unknown media type in type 'fonts/package'

Unknown media type in type 'interface/x-winamp-skin'

Setting up x11-common (1:7.3+20) ...
dpkg: warning: obsolete option '--print-installation-architecture', please use '--print-architecture' instead.                                                            
dpkg: warning: obsolete option '--print-installation-architecture', please use '--print-architecture' instead.                                                            
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Setting up cups (1.3.8-1+lenny7) ...                                                 
Starting Common Unix Printing System: cupsd.                                         
Setting up openoffice.org-common (1:2.4.1+dfsg-1+lenny3) ...                         
Updating OpenOffice.org's dictionary list... done.                                   
Setting up openoffice.org-core (1:2.4.1+dfsg-1+lenny3) ...                           
Setting up openoffice.org-base-core (1:2.4.1+dfsg-1+lenny3) ...                      
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dpkg: warning: obsolete option '--print-installation-architecture', please use '--print-architecture' instead.                                                            
dpkg: warning: obsolete option '--print-installation-architecture', please use '--print-architecture' instead.                                                            
Setting up xorg (1:7.3+20) ...                                                       
Processing triggers for menu ...                                                     
debian:/etc/apt# apt-get -f install                                                  
Reading package lists... Done                                                        
Building dependency tree                                                             
Reading state information... Done                                                    
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.

Tried to install apt-show-versions again

Code:

debian:/etc/apt# apt-get install apt-show-versions                                
Reading package lists... Done                                                     
Building dependency tree                                                          
Reading state information... 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.                                                    
The following information may help to resolve the situation:                      

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  apt-show-versions: Depends: libapt-pkg-perl (>= 0.1.21) but it is not going to be installed                                                                             
E: Broken packages

Fixed broken packages and did clean up

Code:

debian:/etc/apt# apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
debian:/etc/apt# apt-get clean
debian:/etc/apt# apt-get autoclean
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done

apt-get build-dep apt-show-versions

Code:

debian:/etc/apt# apt-get build-dep apt-show-versions
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  build-essential: Depends: g++ (>= 4:4.3.1) but it is not going to be installed
E: Build-dependencies for apt-show-versions could not be satisfied.

dpkg -l | grep sid

Code:

debian:/etc/apt# dpkg -l | grep sid
ii  libkonqsidebarplugin4                 4:4.3.2-1                      Konqueror sidebar plugin library
ii  libnfsidmap2                          0.22-2                         An nfs idmapping library
ii  libresid-builder0c2a                  2.1.1-8                        SID chip emulation class based on resid
ii  libsidplay1                           1.36.59-5                      SID (MOS 6581) emulation library
ii  libsidplay2                           2.1.1-8                        SID (MOS 6581) emulation library
ii  libssh2-1                             1.2.1-2                        SSH2 client-side library
ii  libx11-6                              2:1.1.5-2                      X11 client-side library
ii  libx11-data                           2:1.3.2-1                      X11 client-side library