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  • Issue with dependency and packages availability

    From John Paul Adrian Glaubitz@21:1/5 to Mick Bert on Tue Sep 7 09:40:01 2021
    Hello!

    On 9/7/21 09:11, Mick Bert wrote:
    Today I'm taking my ibookG4 out of his box, with the aim of a simple daily use
    (I' currently writing with Thunderbird running on it). I had some issues installing
    the wireless related packages, and I thought it was an isolated case, but I found
    similar issue installing emacs, so I wonder if there are something in my apt configuration which I should check.

    The issue is the following emacs upstream bug [1] which has not been fixed in the
    Debian package yet. It makes the package uninstallable as explained here [2].

    The firs time I noticed it was installing firmware-b43-installer, which required
    b43-fwcutter which is not available. I resolve downloading and installing an old
    version of such packages.

    b43-fwcutter is a package in the "contrib" section of the archive which is unfortunately
    not yet supported in Debian Ports. Same for "non-free". I have asked the Debian Ports
    FTP team to add these sections for us, so that these packages become available in
    Debian Ports as well, but this has not happened yet, unfortunately.

    Adrian

    [1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2021-03/msg02259.html [2] https://lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2017/12/msg00060.html

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  • From Mick Bert@21:1/5 to All on Tue Sep 7 09:20:01 2021
    Hello

    Today I'm taking my ibookG4 out of his box, with the aim of a simple
    daily use (I' currently writing with Thunderbird running on it). I had
    some issues installing the wireless related packages, and I thought it
    was an isolated case, but I found similar issue installing emacs, so I
    wonder if there are something in my apt configuration which I should
    check. The issue is, as example:

    The following packages have unmet dependencies:
     emacs : Depends: emacs-gtk (>= 1:27.1) but it is not installable or
                      emacs-lucid (>= 1:27.1) but it is not installable or
                      emacs-nox (>= 1:27.1) but it is not installable
    E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

    Than with "apt-get install emacs-lucid":

    The following packages have unmet dependencies:
     emacs-lucid : Depends: emacs-bin-common (= 1:27.1+1-3) but it is not
    going to be installed
                   Depends: emacs-common (= 1:27.1+1-3) but it is not going
    to be installed
    E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

    The firs time I noticed it was installing firmware-b43-installer, which required b43-fwcutter which is not available. I resolve downloading and installing an old version of such packages.

    Any hint?

    --

    Mick

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