| akk | Anyone know how to fix "Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages" on an apt-get install? | 02:19 |
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| akk | I'm trying to install a KDE package, and it says I've held a bunch of KDE packages that I've never installed at all. | 02:19 |
| bkerensa | akk: sudo apt-get install -f | 02:20 |
| bkerensa | ? | 02:20 |
| akk | Adding a -f gives the same error message. | 02:22 |
| akk | and apt-get -f install without the package name gives nothing. | 02:25 |
| akk | Could it be a pinning issue? I added pinning yesterday because I needed 3 packages from neuro-debian, but I *think* I set things up so that only those packages can come from there. | 02:26 |
| akk | And aptitude show calligra is showing an ubuntu version, not a neuro-debian one. | 02:26 |
| geofft | akk: Can you pastebin the output? Or is it just that one error? | 02:29 |
| akk | No, it's a long list. I'll pastebin. | 02:29 |
| akk | The error message: http://pastebin.com/48y5GTEy | 02:31 |
| darthrobot | Title: [# apt-get install -f calligra Reading package lists... Done Building dependenc - Pastebin.com] | 02:31 |
| akk | And in case I messed something up with improper pinning, here's my /etc/apt/preferences: http://pastebin.com/EXPXWNT5 | 02:32 |
| darthrobot | Title: [Package: * Pin: release a=precise-security Pin-Priority: 950 Package: * Pi - Pastebin.com] | 02:32 |
| geofft | ah. apt-get's error messages suck. I would perhaps try installing each dependency and see what error you get. | 02:32 |
| akk | Looking at the dependency list, I'm suspecting that I probably don't want this package anyway. | 02:33 |
| akk | Tried to install it on a different machine and it predicted something like a 150Mb download. | 02:33 |
| akk | But I'd still like to know what the error means and whether I messed up my pins. | 02:34 |
| * akk doesn't understand pinning, misses the old simple APT::Default-Release option | 02:35 | |
| geofft | your pins don't look wrong to me | 02:51 |
| akk | Thanks, that's good to know. | 02:53 |
| akk | I can live without Calligra -- maybe it's just a broken package. | 02:53 |
| akk | I'm investigating (not super heavyweight) ways of editing text and graphics in the same document. | 02:54 |
| akk | Thought maybe calligra could, but the requirements make me doubt the "not super heavyweight" part anyway. | 02:54 |
| nhaines | pleia2: I'm not sure if that support request on the ML was sweet or creepy. :) | 17:29 |
| pleia2 | nhaines: you should see the emails he's sent to me directly :\ | 17:31 |
| pleia2 | I believe he is trying to be nice though | 17:32 |
| pleia2 | what girl doesn't like being told that some guy on the internet "likes their pictures"? | 17:33 |
| * kdub discovers the magical land of debian packages | 17:55 | |
| nhaines | pleia2: oh, direct emails doesn't sound so great. :( But hooray for benefit of the doubt! | 18:37 |
| nhaines | My policy was always that Ubuntu Hour tech support was free and outside of that people pay my full stranger tech support rate. :P | 18:38 |
| pleia2 | he emailed the list because I told him to ;) | 18:41 |
| pleia2 | "I don't have time for one-on-one support requests right now, please email... | 18:42 |
| pleia2 | (I am shipping him a 12.10 disk though) | 18:42 |
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