I would try the following command first:
apt-get build-dep vim-gtk
This will install all of the dependencies for compiling vim (with gtk2
presumably). See if that gets rid of your problems.
HTH!
Tom Purl
On Sun, March 25, 2007 12:22 pm, Yakov Lerner wrote:
> When on FedoraCore, I can build gvim whenever I want and I
> can install needed dependencies (*-devel).
>
> But debian-derived distros are not nice to me ... on the
> debian-derived distro (mepis), trying to install libgtk for building gvim
> I got into trouble that I don't know how to solve:
> 'apt-get install libgtk2.0-dev' gives me errors [1].
> Is libgtk2.0-dev is the correct package name that I need
> to build gvim ? Trying to install lesstif results in apt-get error, too.
> (I do 'apt-get update' often, but it results in errors [2])
> What am I doing wrong ?
>
> Thanks
> Yakov
> "one man's bug is another man's feature",
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Below
> [1] errors from 'apt-install libgtk2.0-dev'
> [2] errors from 'apt-get update'
> [3] contents of the sources.list
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> [1]
> $ apt-install libgtk2.0-dev
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... 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.
>
> Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
> the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
> that package should be filed.
> The following information may help to resolve the situation:
>
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> libgtk2.0-dev: Depends: libgtk2.0-0 (= 2.8.17-1ubuntu5) but
> 2.8.20-0ubuntu1.1 is to be installed
> Depends: libglib2.0-dev (>= 2.8.5) but it is not going to be installed
> Depends: libpango1.0-dev (>= 1.10.0-2) but it is not going to be installed
> Depends: libatk1.0-dev (>= 1.6.1-2) but it is not going to be installed
> Depends: libcairo2-dev but it is not going to be installed
> E: Broken packages
> ---------------------------------------
> [2]
>
> 'apt-get update' also produces errors:
> Get:1 http://apt.mepis.org mepis Release.gpg [191B]
> Hit http://apt.mepis.org mepis Release
> Hit http://apt.mepis.org mepis/main Packages
> Get:2 http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security Release.gpg [191B]
> Get:3 http://archive.ubuntu.com breezy Release.gpg [189B]
> Get:4 http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper Release.gpg [189B]
> Get:5 http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper-updates Release.gpg [191B]
> Get:6 http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper-backports Release.gpg [191B]
> Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com breezy Release
> Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper Release
> Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper-updates Release
> Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper-backports Release
> Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com breezy/main Packages
> Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com breezy/restricted Packages
> Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper/main Packages
> Get:7 http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security Release [50.9kB]
> Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper/restricted Packages
> Get:8 http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security/main Packages
> 99% [8 Packages bzip2 0] [Waiting for headers] [Waiting for headers]
> 25.6kB/s 0sbzip2: (stdin) is not a bzip2 file.
> Err http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security/main Packages
> Sub-process bzip2 returned an error code (2)
> Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper/universe Packages
> Get:9 http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security/restricted Packages
> 99% [Waiting for headers] 25.6kB/s 0sbzip2: (stdin) is not a bzip2 file.
> Err http://security.ubuntu.com dapper-security/restricted Packages
> Sub-process bzip2 returned an error code (2)
> Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper/multiverse Packages
> Get:10 http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper-updates/main Packages
> 99% [10 Packages bzip2 0] [Waiting for headers] 25.6kB/s 0sbzip2:
> (stdin) is not a bzip2 file.
> Err http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper-updates/main Packages
> Sub-process bzip2 returned an error code (2)
> Get:11 http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper-updates/restricted Packages
> 99% [11 Packages bzip2 0] [Waiting for headers] 25.6kB/s 0sbzip2:
> (stdin) is not a bzip2 file.
> Err http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper-updates/restricted Packages
> Sub-process bzip2 returned an error code (2)
> Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper-backports/main Packages
> Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper-backports/restricted Packages
> Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper-backports/universe Packages
> Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com dapper-backports/multiverse Packages
> Fetched 59.9kB in 8s (7326B/s)
> Failed to fetch
> http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/dapper-updates/main/binary-i386/Packages.bz2
> Sub-process bzip2 returned an error code (2)
> Failed to fetch
> http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/dapper-updates/restricted/binary-i386/Packages.bz2
> Sub-process bzip2 returned an error code (2)
> Failed to fetch
> http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/dapper-security/main/binary-i386/Packages.bz2
> Sub-process bzip2 returned an error code (2)
> Failed to fetch
> http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/dapper-security/restricted/binary-i386/Packages.bz2
> Sub-process bzip2 returned an error code (2)
> Reading package lists... Done
> E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old
> ones used instead.
> ------------------------------------------------
> [3]
> $ cat /etc/apt/sources.list
> # See sources.list(5) for more information
>
> # This file should be edited through synaptic
>
> # MEPIS improvements, overrides and updates--the MEPIS magic
> deb http://apt.mepis.org/6.0/ mepis main
>
> # Ubuntu foundation packages
> deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ breezy main restricted
> deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper main restricted
> # Security updates
> deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper-security main restricted
> # Package updates
> deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper-updates main restricted
> # Backports of newer packages--unsupported and not thoroughly tested
> deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper-backports main restricted
>
> # Free unsupported packages from Debian and beyond
> deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper universe
> # Non-free unsupported packages from Debian and beyond
> deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper multiverse
> # Backports of newer packages--unsupported and not thoroughly tested
> deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ dapper-backports universe multiverse
>
> # Some packages not available elsewhere
> # deb http://packages.freecontrib.org/ubuntu/plf/ dapper free non-free
>
> # the following is for ies4linux
> #deb http://wine.budgetdedicated.com/apt edgy main
> -------------------------------------------------------
>
