[Linux-disciples] Uninstallable packages

[Stephen R Laniel]

I've been trying to install plone for a couple days, and I
get this message:

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:
  plone: Depends: zope-cmfplone (= 2.0.4-1) but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages

So naturally my next step was to
sudo apt-get install -t unstable plone zope-cmfplone

whence

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:
  zope-cmfplone: Depends: zope-cmf1.4 (>= 1.4.4) but it is not installable
                 Depends: zope-cmfcore1.4 (>= 1.4.4) but it is not installable
                 Depends: zope-cmfdefault1.4 (>= 1.4.4) but it is not installable
                 Depends: zope-cmftopic1.4 (>= 1.4.4) but it is not installable
                 Depends: zope-cmfcalendar1.4 (>= 1.4.4) but it is not installable
                 Depends: zope-dcworkflow but it is not installable
                 Depends: zope-cmfactionicons but it is not installable
                 Depends: zope-cmfquickinstallertool but it is not installable
                 Depends: zope-groupuserfolder but it is not installable
                 Depends: zope-cmfformcontroller but it is not installable
                 Depends: zope-plonetranslations but it is not installable
E: Broken packages

If a package is in Incoming, I would suppose that means it's
in some limbo state where it isn't yet in Unstable. But if
so, it's been sitting there for two days now, at least. Any
idea what could be going on? http://bugs.debian.org/plone
yields no information.

-- 
``I'm not up on my knitting terminology, but I assert that
  a 'uterus doll' should never, ever be made from anything
  called 'Cascade 128 Chunky'''
 -Brian Cooke, 9 December 2004