On Sun, Jul 19, 2020 at 02:20:13PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Sunday 19 July 2020 13:18:16 Reco wrote: > > > On Sun, Jul 19, 2020 at 01:05:55PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > Now apt-get is bitching because it thinks I'm asking for version > > > 3.0.3 but only 3.0.4 stuff is available: > > > > > > The following packages have unmet dependencies: > > > libalien-wxwidgets-perl : Depends: libwxgtk3.0-dev (< 3.0.3~) but > > > 3.0.4+dfsg-4~bpo9+1 is to be installed > > > Depends: libwxgtk-media3.0-dev (< 3.0.3~) > > > but 3.0.4+dfsg-4~bpo9+1 is to be installed > > > E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. > > > > > > WHAT IS THE NAME OF THE BROKEN PACKAGE???????????????????????????? > > > > No need to shout. It says here loud and clear that you should > > downgrade libwxgtk3.0-dev, libwxgtk-media3.0-dev and their > > dependencies. > > > > Reco > apt policy says the newer ones are installed already, so I > tried --allow-downgrades, but that is ignored and I still don't have a > clue what package is breaking it.
Something like this should do it. apt-get install --allow-downgrades libwxgtk3.0-dev=3.0.2+dfsg-4 \ libwxgtk-media3.0-dev=3.0.2+dfsg-4 Add other libwxgtk* packages to the list as needed. Reco