[PlanetCCRMA] weird behaviour from apt-get

Keenan Pepper cherylgpepper@comcast.net
Tue Jan 20 14:12:01 2004


Another apparent problem with apt-get:



[root@localhost root]# apt-get update
Get:1 http://planetccrma.cait.org fedora/1/i386 release [1811B]
Get:2 http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/1/i386 release [1993B]
Fetched 3804B in 11s (345B/s)
Hit http://planetccrma.cait.org fedora/1/i386/core pkglist
Hit http://planetccrma.cait.org fedora/1/i386/core release
Hit http://planetccrma.cait.org fedora/1/i386/updates pkglist
Hit http://planetccrma.cait.org fedora/1/i386/updates release
Hit http://planetccrma.cait.org fedora/1/i386/planetccrma pkglist
Hit http://planetccrma.cait.org fedora/1/i386/planetccrma release
Hit http://planetccrma.cait.org fedora/1/i386/planetcore pkglist
Hit http://planetccrma.cait.org fedora/1/i386/planetcore release
Hit http://planetccrma.cait.org fedora/1/i386/planetccrma srclist
Hit http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/1/i386/core pkglist
Hit http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/1/i386/core release
Hit http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/1/i386/updates pkglist
Hit http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/1/i386/updates release
Hit http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/1/i386/freshrpms pkglist
Hit http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/1/i386/freshrpms release
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
[root@localhost root]# apt-get install planetccrma-audiovideoapps
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:
  planetccrma-audiovideoapps: Depends: freqtweak but it is not going to
be installed
                              Depends: jamin but it is not going to be
installed                              Depends: swh-plugins but it is
not going to be installed
E: Broken packages
[root@localhost root]# apt-get install freqtweak
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:
  freqtweak: Depends: libfftw3f.so.3
E: Broken packages
[root@localhost root]# apt-get install libfftw3f.so.3
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Package libfftw3f.so.3 is a virtual package provided by:
You should explicitly select one to install.
E: Package libfftw3f.so.3 has no installation candidate
[root@localhost root]#



What is a "virtual package"? Why doesn't it say who it's provided by?
How can i explicitly select one to install? Why isn't it working???