klik & apt

[Derek Broughton]

Art Alexion wrote:

> I installed ksudoku 0.2 using klik.  The deb for the current 0.4 version
> had unmet dependencies.  Runs fine, though I have no idea how klik does
> its magic.  This morning I ran apt-get update/upgrade and got the
> following message:
> 
>     You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these.
>     The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>       ksudoku: Depends: kdelibs4 (>= 4:3.4.1-1) but 4:3.4.0-0ubuntu3.4
>     is installed
>                Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-21) but 2.3.2.ds1-20ubuntu14
>     is installed
>                Depends: libfontconfig1 (>= 2.3.0) but 2.2.3-4ubuntu7 is
>     installed
>                Depends: libidn11 (>= 0.5.13) but 0.5.2-3 is installed
>                Depends: libqt3c102-mt (>= 3:3.3.4) but 3:3.3.3-7ubuntu3
>     is installed
>     E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.
> 
> Do I really want to use the -f (force) option, or does this have the
> potential to break something else?  Will -f force the installation of
> the newer libraries or just get apt-get upgrade to stop complaining?
> 
-f isn't "force", it's "fix" - and I suspect that it's going to tell you
exactly the same thing as your update.  Those dependencies are still going
to be unmet.  It would probably have been a very good idea to figure out
how klik does it's magic.  Since it's not in Breezy, I rather suspect it's
pulling from Debian unstable or even private repositories, and the only way
you're going to be able to do upgrades now is to remove ksudoku.

The simple way to see what apt is going to do is "apt-get -s -f install".  I
think it'll probably tell you it wants to remove ksudoku.
-- 
derek