[lug] can't install KDE on my Debian machine due to libasound1 - help!

[Nate Duehr]

Are you running potato or woody or sid?

Where'd you get the KDE packages from?  

They have a dependency on something you don't have installed which means
the developer forgot a "pre-depends" on the package.

But if the package is from unstable or testing (sid or woody) this
happens, and you kinda just have to live with it.  You can check to make
sure a bug is filed in the Debian Bug Tracking system so the package
maintainer is aware of the issue, and/or contact the maintainer via
e-mail.

You may also want to go digging through the ALSA packages to see which
one provides the lib libasound1 library and install it to see if that
satisfies the broken dependency.

On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 09:40:58AM -0600, Ed wrote:
> Howdy all!
> 
> I have a laptop running the debian distribution.
> 
> I was trying to switch to kde but dselect came up with an
> error. Here's what happens when I try to install the kdebase-libs
> package:
> 
> 
> mikado:/etc/ppp# apt-get install kdebase-libs
> Reading Package Lists... 0%
> Reading Package Lists... 100%
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... 0%
> Building Dependency Tree... 0%
> Building Dependency Tree... 50%
> Building Dependency Tree... 50%
> 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:
>   kdebase-libs: Depends: libasound1 (>= 0.5.5) but it is not installable
> E: Sorry, broken packages
> mikado:/etc/ppp# 
> 
> WHen I try to get libasound1, I have no luck:
> 
> mikado:/etc/ppp# apt-get install libasound1
> Reading Package Lists... 0%
> Reading Package Lists... 100%
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... 0%
> Building Dependency Tree... 0%
> Building Dependency Tree... 50%
> Building Dependency Tree... 50%
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> Package libasound1 has no available version, but exists in the database.
> This typically means that the package was mentioned in a dependency and 
> never uploaded, has been obsoleted or is not available with the contents 
> of sources.list
> E: Package libasound1 has no installation candidate
> 
> Now what do I do?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Ed Hartnett
> 
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