On Wednesday, February 4, 2015 at 12:50:04 PM UTC+5:30, Sivaram Neelakantan wrote: > How does one go about fixing broken packages? I've recently started > using debian and apart some fiddling to get the latest emacs24.4 on > wheezy I have not done anything on the system. When I tried to > install libcurl4, I get the following error. > > apt-get install libcurl4-openssl-dev > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > Some packages could not be installed. > > [snipped 5 lines] > > The following packages have unmet dependencies: > libcurl4-openssl-dev : Depends: librtmp-dev but it is not going to be > installed > E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages > > > Googling around and checking a few forums with various incantations of > apt-get with autoremove/clean/install/dist-upgrade didn't sort out > the problem. I now have no idea how to fix this issue. > > I have a stock install of debian-kde iso and the current version seems > to be > > cat /etc/debian_version > 7.8 > uname -a > Linux sivaram 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.65-1+deb7u1 x86_64 GNU/Linux > > What should I do please to get the package installed? > > sivaram > > p.s first time user of debian >
What happens if you (try to) manually install librtmp-dev ? Note: apt-get, synaptic, and aptitude have different 'solvers' so its good to have all three handy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/d3e7367c-f75a-4770-a0c3-7acf8c16d...@googlegroups.com