Unmet dependencies

[Eric Martel]

Binary package hint: gtk-sharp2

On Ubuntu 10.04, fully updated as of May 12th, 18:25UTC:

$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
Release: 10.04

$ apt-cache policy gtk-sharp2
gtk-sharp2:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 2.12.9-4
  Version table:
     2.12.9-4 0
        500 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/universe Packages

$ sudo apt-get install gtk-sharp2
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:
  gtk-sharp2: Depends: libglib2.0-cil-dev (= 2.12.9-4) but it is not going to be installed
              Depends: libgtk2.0-cil-dev (= 2.12.9-4) but it is not going to be installed
              Depends: libglade2.0-cil-dev (= 2.12.9-4) but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages

[Mark Jones (linuxguy2009-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

"sudo apt-get install gtk-sharp2" just installed fine with all dependencies on my installation of 10.04.
Could you please make sure that you have all required repositories enabled, and if you still experience this?
The error of not having the dependencies makes me think its a matter of not having the required repos enabled.

[Eric Martel (shrodi+launchpad)]

Forgot to mention I have an amd64 platform updated from 9.04.
In Synaptic, all package repositories were enabled.

But I went further; from the previous error message, I ran:

$ sudo apt-get install libglib2.0-cil-dev
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:
  libglib2.0-cil-dev: Depends: libglib2.0-cil (= 2.12.9-4) but 2.12.9-4ubuntu0~ppa1 is to be installed
E: Broken packages

$ sudo apt-get install libglib2.0-cil
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
libglib2.0-cil is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

So I uninstalled libglib2.0-cil and reran "sudo apt-get install gtk-sharp2", and everything went just fine... Maybe the installed libglib2.0-cil was from 9.04...? Anyway, I'm really sorry for the inconvenience.

[Mark Jones (linuxguy2009-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

Sometimes these things happen to me on occasion where a package wont install and I'm not sure why, so I learned to run aptitude and usually it knows exactly what is wrong and has suggestions on how to fix it, especially in cases like this where you have an odd package conflict or whatnot.

Anyways glad you figured it out and since you corrected the issue then a bug doesn't exist I'll go ahead and set this to invalid. Thanks.