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merkoth

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From: Buenos Aires, Argentina

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Broken packages

Hi everyone, I'm experiencing some issues while installing a few libs. This is the output I get:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 libpango1.0-dev : Depends: libglib2.0-dev (>= 2.12.0) but it is not going to be installed
 libsdl-mixer1.2-dev : Depends: libsdl1.2-dev (>= 1.2.4) but it is not going to be installed
                       Depends: libsmpeg-dev (>= 0.4.4-7) but it is not going to be installed
 libsdl-ttf2.0-dev : Depends: libsdl1.2-dev (>= 1.2.4) but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages

I don't see anything wrong in my sources.list, but I'll paste it just in case:

  GNU nano 2.2.4          File: /etc/apt/sources.list                          

deb http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main
#deb-src http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main

## DEBIAN BACKPORTS
deb http://backports.debian.org/debian-backports squeeze-backports main contri$

# Unstable Sid
#deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free
# Unstable Sources
#deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free

The commented-out sid lines were needed for the nvidia drivers. Any ideas?

pvsage

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From: North Carolina

Registered: 2009-10-18

Posts: 9,255

Re: Broken packages

Your sources.list looks rather incomplete, innit?  I don't see a URI for the primary Debian Squeeze repo, or for Statler...

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merkoth

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From: Buenos Aires, Argentina

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Re: Broken packages

## CRUNCHBANG
## Compatible with Debian Squeeze, but use at your own risk.
deb http://packages.crunchbanglinux.org/statler statler main

## DEBIAN
deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free
#deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free

## DEBIAN SECURITY
deb http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main
#deb-src http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main

## DEBIAN BACKPORTS
deb http://backports.debian.org/debian-backports squeeze-backports main contrib non-free

# Unstable Sid
#deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free
# Unstable Sources
#deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free

Sorry, I just failed at copypasting. This is my complete sources.list.

pvsage

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From: North Carolina

Registered: 2009-10-18

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Re: Broken packages

Have you tried installing the listed dependencies first?  Don't know why they're being held back...

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merkoth

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Re: Broken packages

Everything seems to come down to a problem with libglib2.0-dev...

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 libglib2.0-dev : Depends: libglib2.0-0 (= 2.24.2-1) but 2.28.6-1 is to be installed

mynis01

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From: 127.0.0.1

Registered: 2010-07-02

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Re: Broken packages

It appears that your installed version of libgllib2.0-0 is too new, try uninstalling it and then see what happens. Just make sure it doesn't take anything too important with it.

anonymous

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Registered: 2008-11-29

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Re: Broken packages

Try this:

sudo apt-get -t stable install libglib2.0-dev

or

sudo apt-get -t stable install libglib2.0-0

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merkoth

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From: Buenos Aires, Argentina

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Re: Broken packages

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:
 libglib2.0-dev : Depends: libglib2.0-0 (= 2.24.2-1) but 2.28.6-1 is to be installed
E: Broken packages

And then

libglib2.0-0 is already the newest version.

I'm kinda clueless right now. But thanks anyway guys

august

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From: Brooklyn

Registered: 2011-05-26

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Re: Broken packages

I had the exact same problem with the same lib when trying to install Aleph One.

The amount of things that were to be uninstalled when downgrading was sizable enough for me to decide it wasn't worth it.

anonymous

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From: Arch Linux Forums

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Re: Broken packages

What is the output for:

apt-cache policy libglib2.0-0

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mynis01

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From: 127.0.0.1

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Re: Broken packages

What happens if you try and just remove the version of libgllib2.0-0 that you currently have installed?

$ sudo apt-get remove libgllib2.0-0

You could always just install the testing version of libgllib2.0-dev instead. Just beware, your small collection of testing packages might snowball until half your system is testing packages

merkoth

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From: Buenos Aires, Argentina

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Re: Broken packages

@august Unfortunately, this problem arised when I started installing my game development toolchain, so I kinda need it

@anon This is what I get:

libglib2.0-0:
  Installed: 2.28.6-1
  Candidate: 2.28.6-1
  Version table:
 *** 2.28.6-1 0
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     2.24.2-1 0
        100 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ squeeze/main amd64 Packages

@mynis Er... Glib is a core library, I just can't remove it without pulling out a bazillion dependencies...

Last edited by merkoth (2011-05-30 04:33:12)

august

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Registered: 2011-05-26

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Re: Broken packages

Unfortunately, this problem arised when I started installing my game development toolchain, so I kinda need it

You can use Synaptic to find the lib and Force Version back down to the version you need. But I just got into this stuff a few weeks ago so you'll probably want to hold off on that until you get confirmation from someone else. It has the potential to break a lot of stuff.

Mike_H

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Registered: 2010-09-30

Posts: 55

Re: Broken packages

I had the same problem with libglib2.0-dev . I posted in the forum a few days ago.
I couldn't fix it. I ended up installing Xubuntu on a virtual machine and install it there, no problems in Xubuntu.

anonymous

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Registered: 2008-11-29

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Re: Broken packages

Like august said, I would try downgrading it.

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