Problem installing Development tools - Gnome and X11

[Sean Kelley]

Hi,

I am having no luck installing via apt-get some development tools.  I
was able to install the build essential package.  But I cannot install
things like gnome-core-devel or x11-libs-dev.  It's quite frustrating
as it seems that it is really hard to convert ubuntu into a
developer's workstation.

Here are the errors that I am getting:

As you can see I am stuck in dependency hell right now.  I am using
Warty flavor of ubuntu.

Sean


> sudo apt-get install xlibs-dev

Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
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:
  xlibs-dev: Depends: libice-dev but it is not going to be installed
             Depends: libsm-dev but it is not going to be installed
             Depends: libx11-dev but it is not going to be installed
             Depends: libxext-dev but it is not going to be installed
             Depends: libxi-dev but it is not going to be installed
             Depends: libxmu-dev but it is not going to be installed
             Depends: libxmuu-dev but it is not going to be installed
             Depends: libxp-dev but it is not going to be installed
             Depends: libxpm-dev but it is not going to be installed
             Depends: libxrandr-dev but it is not going to be installed
             Depends: libxt-dev but it is not going to be installed
             Depends: libxtrap-dev but it is not going to be installed
             Depends: libxtst-dev but it is not going to be installed
             Depends: libxv-dev but it is not going to be installed
             Depends: xlibs-static-dev but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages


sudo apt-get install gnome-core-devel
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
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:
  gnome-core-devel: Depends: liborbit2-dev (>= 1:2.10) but it is not
going to be installed
                    Depends: libatspi-dev but it is not going to be installed
                    Depends: libatk1.0-dev (>= 1.4.1) but it is not
going to be installed
                    Depends: libeel2-dev (>= 2.6.0) but it is not
going to be installed
                    Depends: libnautilus2-dev (>= 2.6.0) but it is not
going to be installed
                    Depends: libgail-dev but it is not going to be installed
                    Depends: libidl-dev but it is not going to be installed
                    Depends: libgnomevfs2-dev (>= 2.6.1.1-3) but it is
not going to be installed
                    Depends: libpanel-applet2-dev (>= 2.6.0) but it is
not going to be installed
                    Depends: libpango1.0-dev (>= 1.4.0) but it is not
going to be installed
                    Depends: libglade2-dev (>= 2.3.6) but it is not
going to be installed
                    Depends: libgnomeui-dev (>= 2.6.0) but it is not
going to be installed
                    Depends: libxml2-dev but it is not going to be installed
                    Depends: libxslt1-dev (>= 1.1.4) but it is not
going to be installed
                    Depends: librsvg2-dev (>= 2.6.3) but it is not
going to be installed
                    Depends: libgtksourceview-dev (>= 1.0.0) but it is
not going to be installed
E: Broken packages


-- 
Sean Kelley