uqm recommends/suggests packages that don't exist

[bettlebrox]

Binary package hint: uqm

On Ubuntu 8.10, ugm recommend/suggests 2 packages that do not appear to exist in the repositories:

sudo apt-get install uqm
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  uqm-content
Suggested packages:
  uqm-voice
Recommended packages:
  uqm-music

Neither uqm-voice nor uqm-music exist.

Uqm package info:

$ apt-cache policy uqm
uqm:
  Installed: 0.6.2.dfsg-8ubuntu1
  Candidate: 0.6.2.dfsg-8ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 0.6.2.dfsg-8ubuntu1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/multiverse Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Emmet Hikory (persia)]

Actually, these packages do exist, they just aren't in the Ubuntu archive. The main issue is that they are *huge*. Information on installing these packages is available in /usr/share/doc/uqm/

[bettlebrox (micktimony)]

Thanks, found it mentioned in /usr/share/doc/uqm-content/README.Debian . It just seems weird to suggest packages that aren't in the system by default.

However, On my Debian testing desktop, both uqm-voice & uqm-music are available the default repos. Looks like they are both in Lenny, which means the comments in the README might be out-of-date.
http://packages.debian.org/lenny/uqm-music
http://packages.debian.org/lenny/uqm-voice

And the readme at the alternative Debian repo ( http://uqm.debian.net/README ) says:
This site is deprecated: The packages are in debian non-free now for unstable and testing.

Which means they could be included in Ubuntu in the future.

[Emmet Hikory (persia)]

Thanks for double-checking. Based on your research, I've looked a bit more, and it appears they will be included in Ubuntu starting with the 9.04 release (and are already in the jaunty repositories, in multiverse). I'm afraid there's no solution for earlier releases, but with the remote repo having changed, this is indeed an issue, and it has been solved for future releases. There's also a bug in that the README file is wrong, but that's a minor issue, and ought not matter once the transition is complete (with the Lenny release and the upcoming Jaunty release). In the meantime, it should be safe to use the packages from Lenny.