[AG-TECH] Debian broken packages... now fixed

Christoph Willing c.willing at uq.edu.au
Tue Oct 18 18:21:51 CDT 2011


Miguel,

The missing 32bit packages are now in the UQVislab repository so the  
accessgrid3.2 package should install correctly (after running sudo apt- 
get update). I've done some light testing and it all seems to be  
running correctly but please advise if you have any problems.


chris


On 18/10/2011, at 5:41 PM, Miguel A- Sáez Llorente wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Thanks for ur fast replies.
>
> I have tried installing it with a regular user using sudo and i  
> still get the same error.
>
> The repositories im using are the next ones:
>
> deb http://ftp.es.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main
> deb-src http://ftp.es.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main
>
> deb http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main
> deb-src http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main
>
> Both computers are using i686 architecture so i guess thats the  
> problem if only amd64 packages are available for those dependencies.
>
>
> El 18/10/2011 2:40, Christoph Willing escribió:
>>
>>
>> On 18/10/2011, at 12:12 AM, Christoph Willing wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On 17/10/2011, at 10:05 PM, Miguel A- Sáez Llorente wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello!,
>>>>
>>>> I'm trying to install the AG3 package on two computers with Debian
>>>> Squeeze, i get the same error on both:
>>>>
>>>> root at agserver:/home/user# apt-get install accessgrid3.2
>>>> 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:
>>>> accessgrid3.2 : Depends: agcommon but it is not installable
>>>>                 Depends: ag-vic2.8ucl but it is not installable
>>>>                 Depends: ag-rat but it is not installable
>>>>                 Depends: quickbridge but it is not installable
>>>>                 Depends: vpcscreen but it is not installable
>>>> E: Broken packages
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> root at agserver:/home/user# uname -a
>>>> Linux agserver 2.6.32-5-686-bigmem #1 SMP Mon Oct 3 05:03:32 UTC
>>>> 2011 i686 GNU/Linux
>>>>
>>>> I'm not sure if something is wrong on my installation or the source
>>>> packages are bad. Would be nice if someone can take a loot into
>>>> this...
>>>
>>> Miguel,
>>>
>>> I just had a quick look at this - I removed the accessgrid3.2  
>>> package
>>> as well as the dependencies you mentioned above which would not
>>> install for some reason. I then installed again as you did (except I
>>> ran as ordinary user and used sudo). They all installed as  
>>> expected -
>>> I was unable to reproduce your problem.
>>>
>>> I wonder if you have the same Debian repositories enabled that I do?
>>> In my /etc/apt/sources.list, I have listed:
>>> deb http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/debian/ squeeze main contrib non- 
>>> free
>>> deb http://security.debian.org/ squeeze/updates main contrib non- 
>>> free
>>>
>>> i.e. main, contrib and non-free repositories. Do you have all these
>>> enabled?
>>
>>
>> Another question - what architecture are you trying?
>>
>> At the moment, only amd64 is available for the dependent packages  
>> you're having problems with. I'll have to create the i386 versions  
>> if thats the architecture you're using.
>>
>>
>> chris
>>
>>
>> Christoph Willing              +61 7 3365 8316
>> Research Computing Centre
>> University of Queensland
>>
>>
>>
>
>
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University of Queensland





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