Can't install kdevelop on ubuntu

Asked by ohadbenita

when trying to install kdevelop on ubuntu 7.10 the following error occurs :

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:
  kdevelop: Depends: kdelibs4c2a (>= 4:3.5.7-1) but it is not going to be installed
            Depends: libapr1 but it is not installable
            Depends: libaprutil1 but it is not installable
            Depends: libaudio2 but it is not installable
            Depends: libcvsservice0 (>= 4:3.5.7-1) but it is not installable
            Depends: libqt3-mt (>= 3:3.3.8really3.3.7) but it is not going to be installed
            Depends: libsvn1 (>= 1.4) but it is not installable
            Depends: kdebase-bin but it is not installable
E: Broken packages
ohadbenita@ohadbenita-desktop:~$

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Cross (strokemeister) said :
#1

Have you tried to do sudo apt-get install kdelibs4c2a 1 per 1?

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ohadbenita (ohadbenita) said :
#2

Yes, got the following error messages :

ohadbenita@ohadbenita-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install kdelibs4c2a
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:
  kdelibs4c2a: Depends: libarts1c2a (>= 1.5.0-1) but it is not installable
               Depends: libaudio2 but it is not installable
               Depends: libavahi-qt3-1 (>= 0.6.0) but it is not installable
               Depends: liblua50 (>= 5.0.3) but it is not installable
               Depends: liblualib50 (>= 5.0.3) but it is not installable
               Depends: libopenexr2c2a (>= 1.2.2) but it is not installable
               Depends: libqt3-mt (>= 3:3.3.8really3.3.7) but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages

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ohadbenita (ohadbenita) said :
#3

another strange thing, which I suspect is related to the current problem is the fact that even when installing skype the following error occurs : "error : cannot install libqt4-gui"
when trying to install libqt4-gui package the following error occurs :

ohadbenita@ohadbenita-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install kdelibs4c2a
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:
  kdelibs4c2a: Depends: libarts1c2a (>= 1.5.0-1) but it is not installable
               Depends: libaudio2 but it is not installable
               Depends: libavahi-qt3-1 (>= 0.6.0) but it is not installable
               Depends: liblua50 (>= 5.0.3) but it is not installable
               Depends: liblualib50 (>= 5.0.3) but it is not installable
               Depends: libopenexr2c2a (>= 1.2.2) but it is not installable
               Depends: libqt3-mt (>= 3:3.3.8really3.3.7) but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages

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Cross (strokemeister) said :
#4

That's really wierd.
I cannot understand where the problem is...
uh, I can say 100 more ways to try, but no one will work.
Maybe you can try reporting the bug to Ubuntu bugs at there, and go for kdevelop community and ask at there, both.
May they have a fix for that..
I tried installing KDevelop and I haven't any kind of error.
I will continue reading at the net, and If I got another related info, I will answer at there.

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Cross (strokemeister) said :
#5

as I can see there are some users with the same problem at other forums.
They said by deleting all the data of kdat you can install the newest kdat and there will no be more errors.
You can try by typping in a terminal; aptitude purge kdat and later try apt-get install kdat
If it fail too let me know.

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ohadbenita (ohadbenita) said :
#6

Thanks Cross, I really appriciate it & will let you know,

thanks again,

Ohad.

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ohadbenita (ohadbenita) said :
#7

still the same messages...
running out of ideas here

ohadbenita@ohadbenita-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install kdat
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:
  kdat: Depends: kdelibs4c2a (>= 4:3.5.7-1) but it is not going to be installed
        Depends: libqt3-mt (>= 3:3.3.8really3.3.7) but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages

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ohadbenita (ohadbenita) said :
#8

Problem was solved by adding an alternate list of resources in /etc/apt/sources.list

and then running sudo apt-get update

thanks again

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raven (mccormackbryan) said :
#9

Hi I have the same problem. Can you tell me how you solved it? Add/ remove and synaptic package manager both will not install new packages because of dependancies of installed software.

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ohadbenita (ohadbenita) said :
#10

What I did was the following :

1. run sudo apt-get update

2. re-install kdevelop.

if this doesn't work contact me on msn <email address hidden> and I'll try to further help you,

good day.