I used rpm to install kvim with --nodeps because it depends on vim, and vim is not an installable package according to apt-get. Therefore there was no way for me to satisfy the dependency. Never mind that I do have vim installed; I guess that the RPM database doesn't consider any particular vim package to be the one called for.
Here's what happens when I try to do an apt-get install vim:
Package vim 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 However the following packages replace it: vim-minimal E: Package vim has no installation candidate
(In short, not satisfiable.)
Anyway, now anytime I do apt-get, I have the following set of nags:
> apt-get upgrade
You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these. The following packages have unmet dependencies: kvim: Depends: vim but it is not installable E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.
If I actually do an apt-get -f install as the message suggests, its brilliant suggestion is to remove kvim, and I don't wanna! I love vim.
Is there any way to get the RPM database to shuddap about vim already?
Axel Thimm wrote:
On Sat, Jan 01, 2005 at 03:45:22PM -0800, David Highley wrote:
So how do we work our way out of this mess? If I try and use apt-get it
suggests using the "-f" flag and then comes up with a list of half the
rpms on the system to remove.
Whenever apt suggests -f (or at least 99.99% of the cases) it is correct in that you have messed up rpm's internal dependency consitency (by the use of --nodeps for instance).
Perhaps the solution apt is suggesting is not the best (removing all your rpms), but it is definitely a cry for your attention. No package manager can sanely work if the dependencies on board are already conflicting.
Try apt-get check, perhaps that will point you to the right direction.
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