[UNMETDEPS] x11-common conflicts with xxkb, but xxkb depends on x11-common inderectly

[Iakov Davydov]

Binary package hint: xorg

Package xxkb is not installable because:
1. xxkb depends on libxt6
2. libxt6 depends on x11-common
3. x11-common conflicts with xxkb

[psl (slansky)]

Ubuntu 6.10, x86

I want to confirm that this package is not prepared in right way. And it is pity as xxkb is very cool keyboard switcher; I guess it could be very useful can be useful for XFCE (xubuntu) or IceWM. I would like to install it to GNOME desktop too.

$ sudo apt-get install xxkb
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.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  openoffice.org-l10n-en-gb: Depends: openoffice.org-common (>= 2.0.4~rc3) but it is not going to be installed or
                                      language-support-en but it is not going to be installed
                             Depends: openoffice.org-common (< 2.0.5) but it is not going to be installed or
                                      language-support-en but it is not going to be installed
  openoffice.org-l10n-en-za: Depends: openoffice.org-common (>= 2.0.4~rc3) but it is not going to be installed or
                                      language-support-en but it is not going to be installed
                             Depends: openoffice.org-common (< 2.0.5) but it is not going to be installed or
                                      language-support-en but it is not going to be installed
  xxkb: Depends: libx11-6 but it is not going to be installed
        Depends: libxpm4 but it is not going to be installed
        Depends: libxt6 but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages

[Mikhail Gusarov (dottedmag)]

Rebuild with bumped version is enough to make it work again: x11-common conflicts with the very version which is in repository (to avoid installing ABI-incompatible version I believe, but I did not check it hard enough).

[Mikhail Gusarov (dottedmag)]

JFYI: http://dottedmag.net/ubuntu/xxkb/ - .deb for gutsy/amd64 and source package.

[Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel)]

This is still an issue in latest Ubuntu release

root@black:/var/lib/cvsd# lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu intrepid (development branch)
Release: 8.10
root@black:# apt-cache policy xxkb
xxkb:
  Candidate: 1.10-2.1
  Version table:
     1.10-2.1 0
        500 ftp://ftp.free.fr intrepid/universe Packages

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  x11-common: Conflicts: xxkb (<= 1.10-2.1) but 1.10-2.1 is to be installed.

[Steve Beattie (sbeattie)]

Hi, I've created a PPA with a respun xxkb package for Intrepid based on the attached debdiff, available from:

  https://launchpad.net/~sbeattie/+archive

(as always, you should take care to decide whether to trust or not the packages a person places in their PPA). It builds successfully, but I am unfamiliar enough with the software to not be sure that it's working properly. If someone can verify that it indeed does work as expected, then we can get MOTU to sponsor a rebuild; otherwise, the package should probably just be dropped.

Thanks!

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package xxkb - 1.10-2.1build1

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xxkb (1.10-2.1build1) intrepid; urgency=low

  * Rebuild against updated X ABI (LP: #76260)

 -- Steve Beattie <email address hidden> Wed, 15 Oct 2008 01:43:50 -0700