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Package eclipse has unmet dependencies

Bug #401402 reported by Craig Estep
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: eclipse

When trying to install eclipse in karmic, it fails with the following error:

sudo apt-get install eclipse
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:
  eclipse: Depends: eclipse-jdt (= 3.4.1-0ubuntu2) but it is not going to be installed
           Depends: eclipse-pde (= 3.4.1-0ubuntu2) but it is not going to be installed
           Depends: eclipse-source (= 3.4.1-0ubuntu2) but it is not going to be installed
           Recommends: eclipse-gcj but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages

More info:

apt-cache policy eclipse
eclipse:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 3.4.1-0ubuntu2
  Version table:
     3.4.1-0ubuntu2 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/universe Packages

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Jul 19 10:36:33 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: eclipse (not installed)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-3.19-generic
SourcePackage: eclipse
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-3-generic i686

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Bala.Linux (bala-linux-gmail) wrote :

Same issue :(

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Bala.Linux (bala-linux-gmail) wrote :

This has solved the issue....
sudo apt-get install libswt3.4-*

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jyio (inportb) wrote :

I confirm that the bug exists and that the workaround in #2 is valid.

Changed in eclipse (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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raronson (aronson-rob) wrote :

The workaround removes the tuxguitar package. I received a suggestion from the Ubuntu forums to download Eclipse directly from its website and install that way. Giving it a shot now.

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Wes Garner (wesgarner) wrote :

I can confirm this also, workaround does fix

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Dominik George (natureshadow) wrote :

I am trying to debug this to create a patch, but somehow I'm stuck as the dependencies of the packages in question (eclipse-rcp, that is, which finally requests libswt3.4-gtk-java) have correct dependencies ...

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Rarian Rakista (rakista) wrote :

Workaround works but is a kludge.

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Stefan Mosoi (mosoi-stefan) wrote :

the workaround works....it uninstalled vuze(azureus) thought ..

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Ilya Barygin (randomaction) wrote :

You can install eclipse with
 sudo apt-get-install eclipse --no-install-recommends

The problem is in the recommended package eclipse-gcj, which depends on libswt3.2-gtk-gcj, which in turn depends on gij-4.2, which is not available.

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Dominik George (natureshadow) wrote :

The problem results from Matthias Klose committing a changeset to the package on 28 June 2009. He removed the binary package definitions for all *-gcj packages from the eclipse source package (there are quite a few packages built from that) but didn't remove the references to them in the Recommendations for the other binaries.

I created a patch to remove the recommendations.

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Dominik George (natureshadow) wrote :

I uploaded the fixed package to my PPA. Eclipse should be installable from there without flaws.

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Dominik George (natureshadow) wrote :

I moved the updated package to my bugfix PPA: https://launchpad.net/~natureshadow/+archive/bugfixes

Will a dev look at this before karmic comes out?

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MKdx (my-subscribtions) wrote :

@Dominik
The ppa is giving the same dependency problems here.

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UnSandpiper (aybora) wrote :

@Dominik
PPA is letting me install, but give the following messages

When launching Eclipse: "This Eclipse build doesn't have support for the integrated browser."

When selecting "Software updates" from help menu I get: "Cannot launch the Update UI, This installation has not been configured properly for Software Updates."

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Dominik George (natureshadow) wrote : Re: [Bug 401402] Re: Package eclipse has unmet dependencies

@UnSandpiper:

The first is unknown to me, the latter is also an issue with the
original version and far beyond teh scope of my fix.

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Benjamin Drung (bdrung) wrote :

This is fixed in eclipse 3.5.1-0~ubuntu1.

Changed in eclipse (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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