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Problem in Installing Software

Asked by Imran Hussain

Hello Sir,

            I am trying to install software on Ubuntu 7.04 Alternate version, but every time i doble click to install i recieve message like this by the installer,

    "dependency problems prevent configuration"

or when i try to use command line instalation i recieve this message

"
khichi@ubuntu:~$ cd Desktop
khichi@ubuntu:~/Desktop$ sudo dpkg -i ballz.deb
Password:
Selecting previously deselected package ballz.
(Reading database ... 86971 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking ballz (from ballz.deb) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of ballz:
 ballz depends on liballegro4.2; however:
  Package liballegro4.2 is not installed.
dpkg: error processing ballz (--install):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
 ballz

"

This message occures every time i try to install any package. Please sir help me to solve this problem. I have installed Ubuntu using WUBI installer.

Thanks in advance.

Bye

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Paul Hoell (hoellp) said : 		#1

Do you have a working internet connection?
You'll need it to download and install all the needed dependencies for the programs you want to install.
If your connection is working, plz post the output of >cat /etc/apt/sources.list<
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Imran Hussain (khichi20) said : 		#2

Thanks for your answer, but Ubuntu did not installed my modem, so i have not working internet connection on Ubuntu, but i can download all the dependencies by using XP if you tell me the path or more informatins.

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Michael Bienia (geser) said : 		#3

To install liballegro4.2 using a USB stick (or some other means to transfer the debs from XP to Ubuntu) you need to have the dependencies from it installed.
You can see them on http://packages.ubuntu.com/feisty/libs/liballegro4.2.
If I'm not mistaken you should have already the dependencies for liballegro4.2 installed, so you only need the deb for liballegro4.2 itself. Select the architecture you have (probably i386) and a mirror near you and download the deb.

When you install it and dpkg doesn't complain any more than all dependencies should be fullfiled. You can check with "dpkg -C" and/or "sudo apt-get check" if all packages are successfully installed.

If you still need some packages/dependecies you can search for them on http://packages.ubuntu.com.

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