i experience a problem in ubuntu 10.04 of not being able to install a third-party deb package with dpkg. And if i install it with ignore flags afterwards apt wont leave me install anything unless i remove the third party package . Sorry if not related. I'm a user of dpkg and it seems to me that maybe the bevahior i see has sth to do either with a maloformed third party package either with a dpkg strange behavior, and as i see in that bug report is still unsolved (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/480903)
Analytically my problem: In my Lucid 10.04 trying to make my canon pixma 3600 work i downloaded from canon the driver which is the file: ip3600_debian_printer.tar and it contains two deb packages: cnijfilter-common cnijfilter-ip3600series and cnijfilter-common-3.00-1.tar.gz For cnijfilter-common holds: Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.4-1), libcup sys2 (>= 1.2.1), libpopt0 (>= 1.7) And for the installed libcups2 in lucid 10.04 holds: Replaces: libcupsys2 (<< 1.3.7-6) Provides: libcupsys2 Conflicts: libcupsys2 (<< 1.3.7-6) but: sudo dpkg -i cnijfilter-common_3.00-1_i386.deb (translating some errors from greek) Decompressing cnijfilter-common (από cnijfilter-common_3.00-1_i386.deb) ... dpkg: dependencies problems prevent configuration of cnijfilter-common: cnijfilter-common depends from libcupsys2 (>= 1.2.1). But: Package libcupsys2 in not installed Why is the last true since the virtual package libcupsys2 is installed? thanks alex prekates
