Hint: look into *pinning* so that apt's dependency solver always selects the 18.* package for libicu rather than the 19.* package.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PinningHowto On 2019-07-22 0:03, Joan Touzet wrote: > On 2019-07-21 22:39, Rene Veerman wrote: >> root@crow:~# apt install couchdb >> Reading package lists... Done >> Building dependency tree >> Reading state information... Done >> Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have >> requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable >> distribution that some required packages have not yet been created >> or been moved out of Incoming. >> The following information may help to resolve the situation: >> >> The following packages have unmet dependencies: >> couchdb : Depends: libicu60 (>= 60.1-1~) but it is not installable > > This means that libicu in 19.* is not compatible. > >> Recommends: python3-progressbar but it is not going to be >> installed >> E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. >> >> ------ >> >> that's the current status, listed above here.. >> >> at first it complained about 2 packages missing, libicu and libssl. >> >> so i installed the 18.04 *.deb packages for libicu60 ( >> https://ubuntu.pkgs.org/18.04/ubuntu-main-i386/libicu60_60.2-3ubuntu3_i386.deb.html) >> and libssl1.0.0 ( >> https://ubuntu.pkgs.org/18.04/ubuntu-main-amd64/libssl1.0.0_1.0.2n-1ubuntu5_amd64.deb.html) >> >> but i'm still stuck at getting libicu's cooperation.. > > We only publish packages against LTS releases of Debian, Ubuntu, RHEL > and CentOS. That unfortunately doesn't include 19.*. (Yes, I am behind > getting a Debian Buster set of packages up.) > > You may be able to get this to work, but you'll need to go consult with > an Ubuntu expert on this - I haven't the time to help you sort this out, > sorry. :( > > -Joan >
