wings3d does not run on ubuntu 13 that needed dependencies.

[Gibran Barrera]

wings3d not want to run on ubuntu 13 that needed dependencies.

The day yesterday wings3d try installing and will not let me do not know about the repossitorios but ubuntu and lubuntu 13.04 will not let me install anything tells me they do not lack Encentro ero repositories which I have hung work for 1 month and there is nothing about it on blogs.

please help

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Takyoji (takyoji)]

When installing Wings3D from apt-get, here's the output:

$ sudo apt-get install wings3d
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:
 wings3d : Depends: erlang-wx (>= 1:15.b.1-dfsg) but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

This is on 13.04 (64-bit), which has been upgraded from 12.04 (and 12.10 in between) as the same install.

[bowser (bwbernard-wong1)]

You can install a static copy of wings3d by simply downloading a .run file from it website, make it executable and run it. It will install a static copy of wings3d in /home (or you can run it in /opt) with all the dependencies bundled with it.

The dependency problem likely will never be fixed (see https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/erlang/+bug/438365)
It is no big deal as far as wings3d is concern because installing the static version with the .run file is as easy or easier than apt-get and there is no dependecy problem to worry about. I add an "affect me too" simply because I think they should at least have the courtesy to remove wings3d in the repository if they can't fix or won't fix the dependency problem. It reflects badly on Ubuntu to leave packages with known broken dependencies in the repo.

[Hans Joachim Desserud (hjd)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 1070069, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.