Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: aptitude

I run:

aptitude update && aptitude dist-upgrade # all goes well, everything is caught 
up
wget http://ichi2.net/anki/download/files/anki_0.9.9.8.5-1_all.deb 
dpkg -i anki*.deb
aptitude install

And aptitude claims the dependencies are not installable.  For example,
"Depends: python-simplejson (>= 1.7.3) but it is not installable".  And
"aptitude show python-simplejson" returns:

  Package: python-simplejson
  New: yes
  State: not installed
  Version: 1.9.1-1  # distinctly >= 1.7.3

And fails, of course.

If I then install the dependencies via "aptitude install packagename",
it works.

Full output of "aptitude install":

Reading extended state information       
Initializing package states... Done
Writing extended state information... Done
The following packages are BROKEN:
  anki 
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  pump 
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 32.9kB of archives. After unpacking 115kB will be used.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  anki: Depends: python-qt4 (>= 4.4) but it is not installable
        Depends: python-simplejson (>= 1.7.3) but it is not installable
        Depends: python-sqlalchemy (>= 0.4.3) but it is not installable
        Depends: python-pysqlite2 (>= 2.3.0) but it is not installable
        Depends: python-sip4-dev but it is not installable
        Depends: python-qt4-dev but it is not installable
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:

Remove the following packages:
anki

Score is 119

Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?]

$ lsb_release -rd
Description:    Ubuntu 8.10
Release:        8.10

$ apt-cache policy aptitude
aptitude:
  Installed: 0.4.11.3-1ubuntu3
  Candidate: 0.4.11.3-1ubuntu3
  Version table:
 *** 0.4.11.3-1ubuntu3 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

3)  I expected aptitude to install all the dependancies.
4)  It didn't.

** Affects: aptitude (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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aptitude won't resolve dependancies of dpkg -i'd package
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/409042
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