Dependencies problem

[Rebel Lion]

On Mon, 23 Oct 2006 22:12:00 +0200
"Eduard Bonet" <bonedu at gmail.com> wrote:

> After updating i cannot install some programs because of "broken
> dependencies". When i type
> 
> sudo apt-get upgrade
> 
> nothing occurs. But when i type, for example
> 
> sudo apt-get install mplayer
> 
> I get a message saying that mplayer depends on libdirectfb-0.9-22 but
> it is not installable (E: broken packets -i am translating from
> catalan and it could be another thing instead of "packets").
> 
> How can i solve this?


  Ok for a start have you both the multiverse and universe repos
enabled. With broken packages like this it can sometimes be a bit of a
mission to fix them. First thing to try is sudo apt-get install -f just
to make sure that there aren't any half installed packages breaking
things. If none or that fixes them make sure you have both multiverse
and universe repos enabled sudo apt-get update and try again.

David


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