[Linux-disciples] Uninstallable packages

[Adam Rosi-Kessel]

Are you pinned to testing or unstable? Do you have both in your sources?

Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> 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.
> 


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Adam Rosi-Kessel
http://adam.rosi-kessel.org
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