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Subject:    [Fink-users] Re(2):  Installing dbus Fails
From:       "Emily Jackson" <m5computing () earthlink ! net>
Date:       2009-06-20 19:41:47
Message-ID: 20090620194147.1568493423 () smtpauth ! earthlink ! net
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At 2:18 PM -0500 on Saturday, June 20, 2009, Alexander Hansen
<alexanderk.hansen@gmail.com> wrote:

>Emily Jackson wrote:
>> When I tried to install the latest version of dbus, I got the following
>> message:
>>
>> Unpacking replacement dbus ...
>> Preparing to replace dbus-shlibs 1.2.6-1 (using .../dbus-
>> shlibs_1.2.12-10_darwin-powerpc.deb) ...
>> Unpacking replacement dbus-shlibs ...
>> Preparing to replace dbus-dev 1.2.6-1 (using .../dbus-
>> dev_1.2.12-10_darwin-powerpc.deb) ...
>> Unpacking replacement dbus-dev ...
>> Setting up dbus-shlibs (1.2.12-10) ...
>>
>> Setting up dbus-dev (1.2.12-10) ...
>> Setting up dbus (1.2.12-10) ...
>>
>> Reading buildlock packages...
>> Could not resolve inconsistent dependencies!
>>
>> Fink isn't sure how to install the above packages safely. You may be
able to
>> fix things by running:
>>
>>   fink scanpackages
>>   sudo apt-get update
>>   sudo apt-get install dbus-dev=1.2.6-1
>>
>> I performed the first 2 steps above, and then when I tried the third
>> step, I got the following error:
>>
>> sudo apt-get install dbus-dev=1.2.6-1
>> Reading Package Lists... Done
>> Building Dependency Tree... 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:
>>
>> Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
>>   dbus-dev: Depends: dbus-shlibs (= 1.2.6-1) but 1.2.12-10 is to be
>installed
>> E: Sorry, broken packages
>>
>> (I am running Mac OS X 10.4.11.)
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Emily
>>
>>
>>   
>It's mysterious to me why Fink would have you try to downgrade dbus-dev,
>unless you had another build going or something like that.
>
>Try just removing dbus-dev and running "fink update dbus".  If it says
>"no packages to install" then you're probably OK.

I removed dbus-dev and then ran "fink update dbus"; the result was "no
packages to install."

Emily


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