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[Solved] Pidgin install

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mharrison
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[Solved] Pidgin install

#1 Post by mharrison »

Fresh install of Lenny.
When I try to install Pidgin using apt-get install, I am getting the following and not even trying backports helped.

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
pidgin: Depends: libpurple0 (>= 2.4.3-4lenny5) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: perl (>= 5.10.0-19lenny2) but 5.10.0-19 is to be installed
E: Broken packages

Any clue on how I can get around this?
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Re: Pidgin install

#2 Post by Absent Minded »

have you ran "apt-get update"?
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Re: Pidgin install

#3 Post by plugwash »

first try running apt-get update and then trying the install again

If it still fails please post the complete contents of /etc/apt/sources.list
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Re: Pidgin install

#4 Post by mharrison »

I've run apt-get update, aptitude update.

This is a fresh install, so /etc/apt/sources.list should be default, but here is mine:

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# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 5.0.2 _Lenny_ - Official i386 DVD Binary-1 20090628-15:08]/ lenny contrib main

deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 5.0.2 _Lenny_ - Official i386 DVD Binary-1 20090628-15:08]/ lenny contrib main

deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 5.0.2 _Lenny_ - Official i386 DVD Binary-2 20090628-15:08]/ lenny contrib main

deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 5.0.2 _Lenny_ - Official i386 DVD Binary-3 20090628-15:08]/ lenny contrib main

deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 5.0.2 _Lenny_ - Official i386 DVD Binary-4 20090628-15:08]/ lenny contrib main

deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 5.0.2 _Lenny_ - Official i386 DVD Binary-5 20090628-15:08]/ lenny contrib main

deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib

deb http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile lenny/volatile main contrib
deb-src http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile lenny/volatile main contrib
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#5 Post by plugwash »

Your problem is you have security and volatile in there but not a regular mirror. So you get security updates and updates to volatile packages but not regular point release updates. Since the volatile update to pidgin depends on a regular point release update to perl you get an error.

Add the following lines to the end of sources.list

deb ftp.us.debian.org lenny main contrib
deb-src ftp.us.debian.org lenny main contrib

Then do apt-get update && apt-get upgrade
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Re: Pidgin install

#6 Post by mharrison »

Thanks! This did the trick, I will note however that your source links for /etc/apt/sources.list did have an error.

They should look like this:

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deb ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib
deb-src ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib
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