'arduino' package not installable because of libtxrx-java

[Alfonso]

Binary package hint: arduino

'arduino' package fails to install on Ubuntu/PPC Maverick saying there are 'broken packages' (it installs without problems on Ubuntu/intel Maverick).

# apt-get install arduino
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:
 arduino : Depends: librxtx-java but it is not installable
E: Broken packages

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: arduino (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-28.50-powerpc 2.6.35.11
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-28-powerpc ppc
Architecture: powerpc
Date: Thu Jun 2 11:02:58 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release powerpc (20101008)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: arduino

[Scott Howard (showard314)]

Thanks for the report.

Ubuntu 6.10 was the last officially supported PowerPC version of Ubuntu. I don't know what's up with the unofficial Ubuntu PPC builds, but Debian's works fine. If you want to grab a working package, you can take Debian's from:
http://packages.debian.org/sid/powerpc/librxtx-java/download

and then do "$ dpkg -i librxtx-java_2.2pre2-8_powerpc.deb" in the directory you downloaded it to. You should be able to install arduino after doing that.