apt-get broken dependencies

[Alex Dean]

I did only have 'testing' in my sources.list.  I added 'stable', ran  
'apt-get update', and I was able to install php4-gd without any  
problems.  It 'just worked'.

On Nov 8, 2005, at 10:51 PM, der.hans wrote:

> You still shouldn't be needing t1lib1 based on the package info I  
> have.
>
> I'm interested in why apt is wanting to install that for you.

No idea on that one.  It is a little funny, because I didn't see  
t1lib1 in the requirements for php4-gd either (on debian.org).  I  
don't know how the packages actually get in the respository, but is  
it possible that there's a new version of php4-gd which doesn't have  
the dependency on t1lib1, and the website has been updated but the  
mirrors I'm using still have an older one?

I'm using packages.dotdeb.org and mirrors.usc.edu in my  
sources.list.  The actual php4-gd which I got was this : "http:// 
packages.dotdeb.org ./ php4-gd 4:4.4.1-0.dotdeb.2".  Maybe that isn't  
exactly the same as the php4-gd described on debian.org?

Oh well, it works now!

kiltlifter:/home/alex# apt-get install php4-gd
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
   libapache2-mod-php4 libmysqlclient15 libxi6 libxmu6 libxmuu1  
libxp6 libxpm4
   libxrandr2 libxrender1 libxtrap6 libxtst6 php4-cli php4-common  
php4-mysql
   php4-pgsql t1lib1 xlibs
Suggested packages:
   php-pear
The following NEW packages will be installed:
   libmysqlclient15 libxi6 libxmu6 libxmuu1 libxp6 libxpm4 libxrandr2
   libxrender1 libxtrap6 libxtst6 php4-gd t1lib1 xlibs
The following packages will be upgraded:
   libapache2-mod-php4 php4-cli php4-common php4-mysql php4-pgsql
5 upgraded, 13 newly installed, 0 to remove and 27 not upgraded.
Need to get 7241kB of archives.
After unpacking 9769kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y

> https://www.LuftHans.com/unix/
>
> See cafod. It's probably a bit out of date at this point, but the  
> basics
> still hold true even if there are now better ways to get them done.

Thanks!  This is in my Linux bookmarks now.

alex