Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > In <20090428131409.036db...@teksavvy.com>, JoeHill wrote: > >node1:/home/joehill# aptitude -t unstable install xfdesktop4 > >Reading package lists... Done > >Building dependency tree > >Reading state information... Done > >Reading extended state information > >Initializing package states... Done > >Reading task descriptions... Done > >The following packages are BROKEN: > > xfdesktop4 > >The following NEW packages will be installed: > > libxfce4menu-0.1-0{a} > >0 packages upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 433 not upgraded. > >Need to get 0B/203kB of archives. After unpacking 1090kB will be used. > >The following packages have unmet dependencies: > > xfdesktop4: Depends: xfdesktop4-data (= 4.6.0-2) but it is not > > installable The following actions will resolve these dependencies: > > > >Keep the following packages at their current version: > >xfdesktop4 [Not Installed] > > > >I think what is likely happening is that a new enough xfdesktop simply has > > not been uploaded to unstable, but I am not sure how to check that :-\ > > apt-cache policy <package_name> > is what I use to check available versions.
node1:/home/joehill# apt-cache policy xfdesktop4 xfdesktop4: Installed: (none) Candidate: 4.4.2-7 Version table: 4.6.0-2 0 800 http://debian.yorku.ca unstable/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 4.4.2-7 0 900 http://debian.yorku.ca testing/main Packages > I'm seeing xfdesktop4-data=4.6.1-1 in unstable and xfdesktop4-data=4.4.2-7 > in testing. I'm also now showing xfdesktop4=4.6.1-1 in unstable and it > might be installable--it versioned Depend on xfdesktop4-data is certainly > satisfiable. > > Try again? It's still doing the same thing. But what I'm not clear on is, it almost looks like it is saying that it wants an _older_ version of xfdesktop4-data...but then, I'm pretty new at this ;) -- J -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org