Hi Colin, my mistake in the question, where I originally stated the 'problem', as well as the bug report was to say dpkg and not synaptic.
>Recommended by whom? actionparsnip recommended to report the bug in response to the question. https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/81993 >How was synaptic going wrong, exactly? Synaptic will fail with a reported missing dependency. The use of dpkg, as both you and actionparsnip suggest, resolves the problem. I perhaps would have needed to report the bug, if it is in the synaptic case a bug, for synaptic. In any case I was simply looking for an answer to the original question which has proven sufficient as I can use dpkg or build a gui for it(or locate and aquire one) to replace synaptic. sp On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 4:04 AM, Colin Watson <cjwat...@canonical.com>wrote: > On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 12:55:59AM -0000, Steve wrote: > > The issue is with synaptic.dpkg was used as a work around. > > Further it was recommended that I report the issue as a bug. > > Recommended by whom? Cyclic dependencies *are* valid in our system, > although they aren't always a good idea - but I think this particular > cyclic dependency does make sense. > > How was synaptic going wrong, exactly? > > -- > g++-4.3_4.3.3-5ubuntu4_i386.deb cyclically depends on > libstdc++6_4.3.3-5ubuntu4_i386.deb > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/426545 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > > Status in “gcc-defaults” package in Ubuntu: Invalid > > Bug description: > dpkg will not install packages when A depends on B and B depends on A. > > The packages are not in any repository in sources.list. > > Though I assume that cyclical dependencies may be resolved if the to be > installed packages > are in the sources.list file I can not be sure as there is no man nor info > documentation on this issue. > > Any suggestions? > > ps > I am having some trouble adding a local file repository eg: > file:/home/packages. > > > -- g++-4.3_4.3.3-5ubuntu4_i386.deb cyclically depends on libstdc++6_4.3.3-5ubuntu4_i386.deb https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/426545 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
