Finding status of uninstallable package? (libgnomeui-dev)

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 10:32:15PM +0100, Magnus Therning wrote:

> Is there some way of finding out whether something is happening with a
> package that's uninstallable at the moment?
> 
> The package I'm interested in is libgnome-dev:
> 
> Reading Package Lists...
> Building Dependency Tree...
> 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.
> 
> Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
> the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
> that package should be filed.
> The following information may help to resolve the situation:
> 
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>   libgnomeui-dev: Depends: libgnome2-dev (>= 2.6.0) but it is not going to be installed
>                   Depends: libbonoboui2-dev (>= 2.5.4) but it is not going to be installed
>                   Depends: libgnomevfs2-dev (>= 2.7.1) but it is not going to be installed
> E: Broken packages

Try to install those packages, to find out why.  Iterate that process until
you find the root cause.



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 - mdz