[fpc-pascal] Re: Sourceforge Lazarus DEB Fails on Ubuntu Hardy Heron

[Prince Riley]

Time for Ubuntu and Debian to get these things fixed ...

After spending almost five hours attempting to install the lazarus ide on
Ubuntu Hardy Heron I've discovered that the souce of all this trouble is
a fight between the debian maintainer of the FPC debs and the Ubuntu folks
who have not sync'd the libraries and package names..

After reading this console log and looking thru literally hundreds of pages
and web notes I come to find out that none of the posted instructions to put
the lazarus ide on a Ubuntu system (Hardy) will work correctly .. it doesnt
matter how you try or malform the apt-get, its broken fundamentally at the
core and unless someone at Ubuntu or Debian get their libs names syncd back
up this will remain a problem.

The fpc users are caught in the middle here and forgive me for being so
blunt, but its neither fair nor professional for the Debian manintainer to
fail to notice all the posts that keep popping up on this problem without
resolving this and keeping it fixed .....

 The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer
required:
  libglib1.2-dev libgdk-pixbuf-dev libgdk-pixbuf2 libgtk1.2-dev lazarus-src
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  lazarus-src libgdk-pixbuf-dev libgdk-pixbuf2 libglib1.2-dev libgtk1.2-dev
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 5 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
After this operation, 69.8MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database ... 173594 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing lazarus-src ...
Removing libgdk-pixbuf-dev ...
Removing libgdk-pixbuf2 ...
Removing libgtk1.2-dev ...
Removing libglib1.2-dev ...
Processing triggers for libc6 ...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
prince at prince-ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install -f
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
prince at prince-ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install lazarus-ide
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:
  lazarus-ide: Depends: libxi6 (>= 2:1.1.3-1ubuntu3) but 2:1.1.3-1 is to be
installed
E: Broken packages
prince at prince-ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install --force-yes lazarus-ide
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:
  lazarus-ide: Depends: libxi6 (>= 2:1.1.3-1ubuntu3) but 2:1.1.3-1 is to be
installed
E: Broken packages


On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 11:59 PM, Prince Riley <wmarketing3 at gmail.com>wrote:

> The current .DEB lazarus-ide_0.9.26.2-0_i386.deb available from  the
> Sourceforge repository reports a dependency error when I attempt to run it
> on Ubuntu 8.04. The error reads, "Error: Dependency is not satisfiable:
> libxi6"
>
> What makes this vexing is the installer reports a dependency error when in
> fact I checked the Ubuntu install with Synaptic and it reports that libxi6
> is present and up to date.
>
> Can anyone explain why the .DEB package is reporting a missing library when
> that library is present on the Ubuntu system? Is this a version issue? Can I
> just force the files onto the system and ignore this error. It appears to
> be  a problem with the deb package and not the file it says is missing.
>
>
>
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