Debian Bug Tracking System said on Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 03:15:08PM +0000,:
> It's experimental, not a bug.
I now have only testing in my sources.list, and aptitude is still
uninstallable.
See:-
~$ sudo apt-get install aptitude
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.
aptitude : Depends: libapt-pkg-libc6.9-6-4.8
Depends: libept0 (>= 0.5.30) but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: apt-xapian-index but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages
sources.list now reads:-
:~$ more /etc/apt/sources.list
#deb ftp://ftp.debian-multimedia.org unstable main
#deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
#deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian experimental main contrib non-free
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian testing main #contrib non-free
And yes, I did run "apt-get update" after editing sources.list.
And there is some problem with dependency information somewhere - apt
provides the libapt-pkg-libc6Whatever package; and it is installed;
but still aptitude refuses to install. I do not think that being in
experimental is a reason for apt/dpkg to ignore correctly declared
dependency information in packages.
Additionally,
Package libapt-pkg-libc6.9-6-4.8 is a virtual package provided by:
You should explicitly select one to install.
is an unexpected / incomplete message; I think a a package SHOULD be
named here when the user has given apt* wrong / inadequate names of
packages to be installed.
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