[PlanetCCRMA] New Apt problems

[Fernando Lopez-Lezcano]

On Sat, 2004-11-27 at 14:46, William M. Quarles wrote:
> Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
> >>[root@resistance root]# apt-get install alsaplayer audacity mpg321 
> >>rosegarden4 sweep terminatorX
> >>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.
> >>The following information may help to resolve the situation:
> >>
> >>The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> >>   alsaplayer: Depends: libmad.so.0
> >>   audacity: Depends: libmad.so.0
> >>   mpg321: Depends: libmad.so.0
> >>   rosegarden4: Depends: libmad.so.0
> >>   sweep: Depends: libmad.so.0
> >>   terminatorX: Depends: libmad.so.0
> >>E: Broken packages
> >>[root@resistance root]#
> >>
> >>That means that the file isn't there, right?
> >>>>Shouldn't apt-get try to download 
> >>>>Libmad automatically when that happens?
> >>>
> >>>Yes, it should do that. But most probably libmad cannot be installed
> >>>because it conflicts with something you have installed. Again, the exact
> >>>output would be helpful. 
> >>>
> >>>Do you currently have libmad.so.* installed?
> >>>  ls /usr/lib/libmad.*
> >>>If so, which package owns it?
> >>>  rpm -q -f /usr/lib/libmad.*
> >>
> >>[root@resistance root]# ls /usr/lib/libmad.*
> >>ls: /usr/lib/libmad.*: No such file or directory
> >>[root@resistance root]#
> >>
> > So, libmad is not there and apparently can't be installed. The next step
> > would be to try to find out why:
> >   apt-get install libmad
> 
> It can be installed, so which computer has the problem here?
> 
> [root@resistance root]# apt-get install libmad
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>    libmad
> 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 removed and 769 not upgraded.
> Need to get 80.1kB of archives.
> After unpacking 131kB of additional disk space will be used.
> Get:1 http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/1/i386/freshrpms libmad 
> 0.15.1b-3.1.fc1.fr [80.1kB]
> Fetched 80.1kB in 4s (16.0kB/s)
> Committing changes...
> Preparing...                ########################################### 
> [100%]
>     1:libmad                 ########################################### 
> [100%]
> Done.
> [root@resistance root]#

Strange. Unless there is a conflict between libmad from freshrpms and
libmad from Planet CCRMA. Do the problematic packages install now?

-- Fernando