Should be more verbose with unsatisfiable dependencies
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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gdebi |
Fix Released
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Wishlist
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
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jon@ANKH:~$ sudo gdebi swiftweasel-
[sudo] password for jon:
Reading package lists: Done
Reading state information: Done
Reading state information: Done
Reading state information: Done
This package is uninstallable
Failed to satisfy all dependencies (broken cache)jon@ANKH:~$
It would be handy to know what was wrong with the cache and
how a beginner might go about fixing it.
In this case,
jon@ANKH:~$ sudo apt-get check
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run ‘apt-get -f install’ to correct these.
The following packages have unmet dependencies.
gnome-do: Depends: libcairo2 (>= 1.5.12) but 1.4.14-1 is installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.
Changed in gdebi: | |
importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
status: | New → Triaged |
Fixed in 0.6.1 with porting to python-apt 0.8.