The Pidgin puzzle.

[Tim Frost]

Herman,


On Fri, 2009-07-24 at 13:51 +0800, HermanAA wrote:
> If I try to install Pidgin, it says (in Synaptic):
> 
> pidgin:
>   Depends: libdbus-glib-1-2 (>=0.78) but 0.76-1 is to be installed
>   Depends: libgtk2.0-0 (>=2.16.0) but 2.14.4-0ubuntu1 is to be installed
>  Depends: libpurple0 but it is not going to be installed
>   Depends: perl (>=5.10.0-19ubuntu1) but 5.10.0-11.1ubuntu2.3 is to be
> installed
> 
Those errors suggest that you have mixed software sources for intrepid
with software sources for another distribution (for example, a jaunty
ppa, or a debian repository for pidgin), because the above messages
indicate that the pidgin package that you are trying to install depends
on versions of packages that are newer than those in the intrepid
repositories.

What repositories (software sources) do you have enabled? (Can you post
the contents of /etc/apt/sources.list, and of any files in
directory /etc/apt/sources.list.d?)


And what does the command "apt-cache policy pidgin libpurple0" report?
(I ask about libpurple0 because it is a dependency of both the ubuntu
version of pidgin for intrepid, and of the pidgin package you are
attempting to install, and yet 'Depends: libpurple0 but it is not going
to be installed'




> ......... so I find them and Mark them (for installation).
> 
> Now we get dependencies of dependencies :
> 
> libpurple0:
>   Depends: libdbus-glib-1-2 (>=0.78) but 0.76-1 is to be installed
>   Depends: libnspr4-0d (>=4.7.3-0ubuntu1~) but 4.7.1+1.9-0ubuntu4 is to
> be installed
>   Depends: libnss3-1d (>=3.12.2~rc1) but 3.12.0.3-0ubuntu5.8.10.1 is to
> be installed
>   Depends: perl (>=5.10.0-19ubuntu1) but 5.10.0-11.1ubuntu2.3 is to be
> installed
> 
> If the system knows all this is needed, why is it not installing them?
> Do I have the wrong approach to install Pidgin perhaps?
>  (are there better ways?)
> 
> I did remove the old Pidgin as part of a (non-Synaptic) upgrade.
>  Ended up with no Pidgin. 

Some of those versions correspond to packages from jaunty. Did you add a
jaunty PPA or jaunty-updates repository? (Any line
in /etc/apt/sources.list or /etc/apt/sources.list.d/* where the third
field is 'jaunty', rather than 'intrepid', could explain this)

> 
> Now trying to get back on track.
> 
> My system:
> Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid), default.
>  Updated.
> 
> Herman in PHL.
> 
> 
> 

Tim
-- 
Tim Frost <timfrost at xtra.co.nz>
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