Debian 7 (wheezy) installation impossible

[Nick Steeves]

apt-get install pipelight-multi
...
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 pipelight-multi : Depends: wine-compholio (>= 1.7.4-2~)
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

wine-compholio:i386 is available, but its dependencies are a mess. It cannot be cleanly installed onto an up-to-date Debian 7 system.

Is there any chance you could backport the packages you're using for Jessie?

[Michael Müller (mqchael)]

Hi,

we are building all Debian packages exactly from the same source package and we build the package on a machine matching the exact Debian version of the targeted package. Can you show us the output of

aptitude install pipelight-multi

since it shows more exactly which packages conflict? Which repository are you using for Pipelight and which non default repositories do you use also?

Michael

[Nick Steeves (nick-0)]

Hi Michael,

I followed pipelight-installation.html and am using the following repository:
deb http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/DarkPlayer:/Pipelight/Debian_7.0/ ./

Installing "wine-compholio" from DarkPlayer:/Pipelight/Debian_7.0 causes the errors as the last time I attempted to use the Ubuntu compholio PPA on Debian.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 libjack0 : Conflicts: libjack-0.116:i386 which is a virtual package.
 libjack-jackd2-0:i386 : Conflicts: libjack-0.116 which is a virtual package.
                         Conflicts: libjack0 but 1:0.121.3+20120418git75e3e20b-2.1 is installed.
 gettext-base : Conflicts: gettext-base:i386 but 0.18.1.1-9 is to be installed.
 gettext-base:i386 : Conflicts: gettext-base but 0.18.1.1-9 is installed.
 gettext : Conflicts: gettext:i386 but 0.18.1.1-9 is to be installed.
 gettext:i386 : Conflicts: gettext but 0.18.1.1-9 is installed.
 libgif4 : Conflicts: libgif4:i386 but 4.1.6-10 is to be installed.
 libgif4:i386 : Conflicts: libgif4 but 4.1.6-10 is installed.
Internal error: found 2 (choice -> promotion) mappings for a single choice.
Internal error: found 2 (choice -> promotion) mappings for a single choice.
Internal error: found 2 (choice -> promotion) mappings for a single choice.
Internal error: found 2 (choice -> promotion) mappings for a single choice.
Internal error: found 2 (choice -> promotion) mappings for a single choice.
Internal error: found 2 (choice -> promotion) mappings for a single choice.
Internal error: found 2 (choice -> promotion) mappings for a single choice.
Internal error: found 2 (choice -> promotion) mappings for a single choice.

I wonder if Ubuntu does multiarch differently, or if their virtual packages are different? Debian-provided wine:i386 installs without issue.

aptitude install pipelight-multi
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 libjack0 : Conflicts: libjack-0.116:i386 which is a virtual package.
 libjack-jackd2-0:i386 : Conflicts: libjack-0.116 which is a virtual package.
                         Conflicts: libjack0 but 1:0.121.3+20120418git75e3e20b-2.1 is installed.
 gettext-base : Conflicts: gettext-base:i386 but 0.18.1.1-9 is to be installed.
 gettext-base:i386 : Conflicts: gettext-base but 0.18.1.1-9 is installed.
 gettext : Conflicts: gettext:i386 but 0.18.1.1-9 is to be installed.
 gettext:i386 : Conflicts: gettext but 0.18.1.1-9 is installed.
 libgif4 : Conflicts: libgif4:i386 but 4.1.6-10 is to be installed.
 libgif4:i386 : Conflicts: libgif4 but 4.1.6-10 is installed.
Internal error: found 2 (choice -> promotion) mappings for a single choice.
Internal error: found 2 (choice -> promotion) mappings for a single choice.
Internal error: found 2 (choice -> promotion) mappings for a single choice.
Internal error: found 2 (choice -> promotion) mappings for a single choice.
Internal error: found 2 (choice -> promotion) mappings for a single choice.
Internal error: found 2 (choice -> promotion) mappings for a single choice.

I am running a more-or-less stock Debian 7 system, with updates enabled, with cherry-picked backports from the official backports repository. I've add...

[Nick Steeves (nick-0)]

Correction: I pull the source from the SnapRAID repo, and locally build the package.

[Nick Steeves (nick-0)]

1. To remove my customisations as a source of conflicts, I did a minimal installation of Wheezy into a virtual machine.
2. Added contrib and non-free to /etc/apt/sources.list
3. Installed gettext
4. Then followed the Pipelight installation guide--this is when I enabled i386 multiarch

The gettext and libgif4 dependency issues found in wine-compholio are identical.

apt-cache policy wine-compholio returns
...
Candidate: 1.7.12-1~ubuntu12.04.1

Debian wine doesn't depend on gettext or libgif4. Additionally, Pipelight apparently works just fine without these on Ubuntu 12.04:
http://bradmont.net/?q=node/5

I think the gettext:386 and libgif4 dependencies need to be removed, since installing Pipelight like this:
sudo aptitude install pipelight-multi libgif4:i386- gettext:i386-

succeeds! It also runs without issue. :-)

Furthermore, I've checked out Pipelight on my experimental Fedora installation, where it works flawlessly, and
yum version gettext-libs.i686 returns
Installed: 20/x86_64 1594:fa83064e84f47c060b274eb4
likewise,
yum version libgif4:i686
returns
Installed: 20/x86_64 1594:fa83064e84f47c060b274eb471156a8f06ef3a20

Conclusion: gettext:i386 and libgif4:i386 should be removed from wine-compholio's dependencies.

[Nick Steeves (nick-0)]

...yes, I still learning Fedora. Specific package versions, queried using yum list packagename:
Installed Packages
gettext.x86_64 0.18.3.1-1.fc20 @koji-override-0/$releasever

Installed Packages
giflib.x86_64 4.1.6-9.fc20 @koji-override-0/$releasever
Available Packages
giflib.i686 4.1.6-9.fc20 fedora

Installed Packages
wine.x86_64 1.7.15-2.1 @home_DarkPlayer_Pipelight
Available Packages
wine.i686 1.7.15-2.1 home_DarkPlayer_Pipelight
--

file `which wine`
/usr/bin/wine: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.32, BuildID[sha1]=62e9a2c02ddac8ea18cb5980ddb56053ddf78c02, stripped
--

One distinction I found between the DarkPlayer-provided wine packages is that the Debian version links to
/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgettextpo.so.0
where the Fedora version does not. Because gettext:i386 is distinct from libgettextpo0:i386, removing gettext:i386 as a dependency, while retaining libgettextpo0:i386 should resolve this bug.

[Michael Müller (mqchael)]

Hi,

the recommendation for gettext and libgif is now removed and should be fixed in the next release of wine-compholio.

Michael

[Nick Steeves (nick-0)]

Thank you Michael !