aptitude won't resolve dependancies of dpkg -i'd package

[Darxus]

Binary package hint: aptitude

I run:

aptitude update && aptitude dist-upgrade # all goes well, everything is caught up
wget http://ichi2.net/anki/download/files/anki_0.9.9.8.5-1_all.deb
dpkg -i anki*.deb
aptitude install

And aptitude claims the dependencies are not installable. For example, "Depends: python-simplejson (>= 1.7.3) but it is not installable". And "aptitude show python-simplejson" returns:

  Package: python-simplejson
  New: yes
  State: not installed
  Version: 1.9.1-1 # distinctly >= 1.7.3

And fails, of course.

If I then install the dependencies via "aptitude install packagename", it works.

Full output of "aptitude install":

Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Writing extended state information... Done
The following packages are BROKEN:
  anki
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  pump
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 32.9kB of archives. After unpacking 115kB will be used.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  anki: Depends: python-qt4 (>= 4.4) but it is not installable
        Depends: python-simplejson (>= 1.7.3) but it is not installable
        Depends: python-sqlalchemy (>= 0.4.3) but it is not installable
        Depends: python-pysqlite2 (>= 2.3.0) but it is not installable
        Depends: python-sip4-dev but it is not installable
        Depends: python-qt4-dev but it is not installable
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:

Remove the following packages:
anki

Score is 119

Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?]

$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 8.10
Release: 8.10

$ apt-cache policy aptitude
aptitude:
  Installed: 0.4.11.3-1ubuntu3
  Candidate: 0.4.11.3-1ubuntu3
  Version table:
 *** 0.4.11.3-1ubuntu3 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

3) I expected aptitude to install all the dependancies.
4) It didn't.

[Darxus (darxus)]

If I say "no" to "Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?]", the second option is to do exactly what I want.

"aptitude -f install" does no better.

Full log attached.

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

I'd say this is working as designed

"aptitude install anki" would have done the trick AFAICT