Ubuntu
vmware-package package

can not find dependencys

Bug #459286 reported by Danger
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This bug affects 3 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
vmware-package (Ubuntu)
Won't Fix
Undecided
VMware Build Team
Nominated for Karmic by Danger

Bug Description

Binary package hint: vmware-package

karmic rc1

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Oct 23 14:06:54 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: vmware-package (not installed)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: vmware-package
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686

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inode77 (simon-gerber) wrote :

# aptitude install vmware-package
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initialising package states... Done
The following packages are BROKEN:
  vmware-package
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  debhelper{a} execstack{a} gettext{a} html2text{a} intltool-debian{a} libelfg0{a} libgnomecanvasmm-2.6-1c2a{a} libmail-sendmail-perl{a} libsexymm2{a}
  libsys-hostname-long-perl{a} libview2{a} module-assistant{a} po-debconf{a} prelink{a}
0 packages upgraded, 15 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 3,712kB of archives. After unpacking 13.1MB will be used.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  vmware-package: Depends: libstdc++5 which is a virtual package.
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:

Keep the following packages at their current version:
vmware-package [Not Installed]

Score is -9879

Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?]
No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]
Writing extended state information... Done
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initialising package states... Done

Changed in vmware-package (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → VMware Build Team (vmware-builds)
Revision history for this message
Scott Kitterman (kitterman) wrote :

The vmware binary needs to be built against a non-ancient GCC version. There's nothing in Ubuntu that can be done to fix this.

Changed in vmware-package (Ubuntu):
status: New → Won't Fix
Revision history for this message
Danger (danger-bway) wrote :

can this pakage then be removed?

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