Gdebi not installing required dependencies
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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gdebi (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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High
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Unassigned | ||
Trusty |
Fix Released
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High
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
SRU verification:
1. use trusty
2. run "apt-get download 4g8"
3. run "gdebi-gtk ./4g8*.deb"
4. click on "install" in the gdebi UI
5. verify that the package 4g8 fails to install because the libnet1 dependency is not installed
6. install gdebi from trusty-proposed
7. repeat steps 3,4 and verify that the libnet1 dependency is installed this time.
Gdebi is not installing required dependencies before installing the desired package.
You need to run "sudo apt-get install -f" to fix the problem.
The usual behaviour is to install the dependencies as part of the desired package installation.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: gdebi 0.9.5.3
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-24-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
Date: Fri Apr 18 19:59:53 2014
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-04-18 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140414)
PackageArchitec
SourcePackage: gdebi
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
While not the best example (as it's in the repos), a simple example of failure with a nautilus-actions .deb -
Selecting previously unselected package nautilus-actions. actions_ 3.2.3-1_ amd64.deb ...
(Reading database ... 184849 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../nautilus-
Unpacking nautilus-actions (3.2.3-1) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of nautilus-actions:
nautilus-actions depends on libunique-3.0-0 (>= 2.90.1); however:
Package libunique-3.0-0 is not installed.
dpkg: error processing package nautilus-actions (--install):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured