Groups | Search | Server Info | Keyboard shortcuts | Login | Register [http] [https] [nntp] [nntps]

Groups > linux.debian.user > #207544

Re: but it's not going to be installed

Show all headers | View raw

On 2019-04-16 08:39, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 15, 2019 at 08:45:09PM +0100, mick crane wrote:
>> I typed
>> "apt install mypaint"
>> mypaint depends on mypaint-data but it's not going to be installed
>> seen that mypaint-data was there so
>> "apt install mypaint-data"
>> ...installs OK
>> "apt install mypaint"
>> no complaints
>> what's that all about then ?
> 
> This is normally due to Apt having multiple Debian suites to choose 
> from
> (e.g. stable and unstable) but having preferences and/or "pinning" set 
> up
> so that it does not want to install the dependencies of mypaint.
> 
> The approach you took (manually select mypaint-data) works, and could 
> have
> been done on the same command (apt install mypaint mypaint-data).
> 
> If you would like to investigate further, can you share the output of
> "apt policy"?

would the brave-apt stretch line cause problems with software other than 
brave browser which I don't really use ?
:~$ apt policy
Package files:
  100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
      release a=now
  500 https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/brave-apt stretch/main amd64 
Packages
      release o=. stretch,a=stretch,n=stretch,l=. stretch,c=main,b=amd64
      origin s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com
  500 http://deb.debian.org/debian buster/contrib i386 Packages
      release o=Debian,a=testing,n=buster,l=Debian,c=contrib,b=i386
      origin deb.debian.org
  500 http://deb.debian.org/debian buster/contrib amd64 Packages
      release o=Debian,a=testing,n=buster,l=Debian,c=contrib,b=amd64
      origin deb.debian.org
  500 http://deb.debian.org/debian buster/main i386 Packages
      release o=Debian,a=testing,n=buster,l=Debian,c=main,b=i386
      origin deb.debian.org
  500 http://deb.debian.org/debian buster/main amd64 Packages
      release o=Debian,a=testing,n=buster,l=Debian,c=main,b=amd64
      origin deb.debian.org
Pinned packages:

-- 
Key ID    4BFEBB31

Back to linux.debian.user | Previous | Next — Previous in thread | Next in thread | Find similar | Unroll thread

Thread

but it's not going to be installed mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com> - 2019-04-15 21:50 +0200
  Re: but it's not going to be installed Cindy Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> - 2019-04-15 22:10 +0200
    Re: but it's not going to be installed mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com> - 2019-04-15 22:30 +0200
    Re: but it's not going to be installed mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com> - 2019-04-16 09:40 +0200
    Re: but it's not going to be installed Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2019-04-16 10:00 +0200
  Re: but it's not going to be installed Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2019-04-16 09:50 +0200
    Re: but it's not going to be installed mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com> - 2019-04-16 11:20 +0200
      Re: but it's not going to be installed Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2019-04-16 15:40 +0200

csiph-web