[PlanetCCRMA] New Apt problems

Fernando Lopez-Lezcano nando@ccrma.Stanford.EDU
Fri Nov 26 13:21:01 2004


On Fri, 2004-11-26 at 13:03, William M. Quarles wrote:
> OK, I think I've learned some valuable lessons through all of this.  Now 
> Trying to reinstall Planet CCRMA, I've run into some problems.
> 
> [root@resistance 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: alsaplayer but it is not going 
> to be installed
>                                Depends: audacity but it is not going to 
> be installed
>                                Depends: mpg321 but it is not going to be 
> installed
>                                Depends: rosegarden4 but it is not going 
> to be installed
>                                Depends: sweep but it is not going to be 
> installed
>                                Depends: terminatorX but it is not going 
> to be installed
> E: Broken packages
> 
> I've tried running apt-get with clean, dist-upgrade, and -f install, and 
> none of them seem to fix this problem.  I hope that you can help.

Try installing the packages that are giving you problems explicitly (one
by one), that should print more precise information about why each can't
be installed (most probably conflicts with stuff you already have in
your computer). 

-- Fernando