USN-2124-1 (OpenJDK-6) has regressed..?

[William Scott Lockwood III]

On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 9:35 AM, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday 04 March 2014 10:24:29 William Scott Lockwood III did opine:
>
>> On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 8:00 AM, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
>> > Is there a line for my sources.list that will allow this to be
>> > installed on a 10.04.4 LTS system?  I am not seeing it in Synaptic
>> > ATM.
>> >
>> > Thanks.
>> >
>> > Cheers, Gene
>>
>> No idea, I haven't run that in at least 3 years. You could back port,
>> or you could upgrade. Or compile it yourself, but I don't suggest that
>> at all, unless you're willing to maintain it yourself for security and
>> bug fix's. Their project home page is at https://mariadb.org/ and I
>> find packages here: https://downloads.mariadb.org/mariadb/5.5.35/
>>
>> There is also the new 10.x version, but I'd stick with 5.5 for now.
>
> Following the instructions on that site, adding the repo, there seems to be
> a missing dependency.
>
> The final install command line returns this:
>
> gene at coyote:/var/log$ sudo apt-get install mariadb-server
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... 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.
> The following information may help to resolve the situation:
>
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>   mariadb-server: Depends: mariadb-server-5.5 (= 5.5.36+maria-1~lucid) but
> it is not going to be installed
> E: Broken packages
>
> I'll see what Synaptic can make of it, it may be more verbose.
> Yes. It will not install the meta packages but will all the 5.5's, but when
> I click apply, it also wants to expunge all of kde.  That obviously will
> not do.
>
> Sniff...


Honestly, I wouldn't trust that on 10.04. That's way, way too old to
run newer binaries. Why are you still on 10.04? Is it a technical
reason, or just no desire to upgrade to something newer that is also
LTS supported?

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