sugar is broken and needs rebuilding with libffi5

[Shirish Agarwal]

Binary package hint: sugar

Hi all,
 I wanted to install sugar

shirish@Mugglewille:~$ sudo aptitude install sugar sugar-activities sugar-emulator
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
The following packages are BROKEN:
  libffi4
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  hulahop{a} libfarsight0.1-3{a} libhippocanvas-1-0{a} libmatchbox1{a} libtelepathy-glib0{a}
  matchbox-window-manager{a} python-hippocanvas{a} python-json{a} python-telepathy{a} sugar sugar-activities
  sugar-artwork{a} sugar-base{a} sugar-calculate-activity{a} sugar-chat-activity{a}
  sugar-connect-activity{a} sugar-datastore{a} sugar-emulator sugar-journal-activity{a}
  sugar-logviewer-activity{a} sugar-memorize-activity{a} sugar-pippy-activity{a} sugar-presence-service{a}
  sugar-terminal-activity{a} sugar-toolkit{a} sugar-turtleart-activity{a} sugar-web-activity{a}
  telepathy-gabble{a} telepathy-salut{a} telepathy-stream-engine{a}
0 packages upgraded, 31 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded.
Need to get 5410kB of archives. After unpacking 22.0MB will be used.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  libffi4: Depends: gcc-4.2-base (= 4.2.3-2ubuntu7) but 4.2.4-0ubuntu2 is installed.
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:

Keep the following packages at their current version:
libffi4 [Not Installed]
sugar [Not Installed]
sugar-activities [Not Installed]
sugar-base [Not Installed]
sugar-calculate-activity [Not Installed]
sugar-chat-activity [Not Installed]
sugar-connect-activity [Not Installed]
sugar-datastore [Not Installed]
sugar-emulator [Not Installed]
sugar-journal-activity [Not Installed]
sugar-logviewer-activity [Not Installed]
sugar-memorize-activity [Not Installed]
sugar-pippy-activity [Not Installed]
sugar-terminal-activity [Not Installed]
sugar-turtleart-activity [Not Installed]
sugar-web-activity [Not Installed]

Score is -39566

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Abandoning all efforts to resolve these dependencies.
Abort.

I also saw the post

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2008-May/025361.html

This tells that it needs to rebuilt against libffi5

[Luke Faraone (lfaraone)]

Can you try this on the latest version of the packages?

[Morgan Collett (morgan)]

This was fixed a while ago: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2008-May/025366.html