[ILUG] apt-get: 'Build-dependencies for foo could not be satisfied'

[Stephen Shirley]

On 03/08/06, Justin Mason <jm at jmason.org> wrote:
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>   libtheora-dev: Depends: libtheora0 (= 0.0.0.alpha5-0ubuntu2) but 1.0alpha3-0.0 is to be installed
> E: Broken packages

Try 'apt-cache show libtheora0'. See if version 1.0alpha3-0.0 is
present in the output, it isn't here with a comparable setup. I'm
suspecting that that version isn't actually being requested by your
build-dep, but is a symptom of some past failed poking. I'm trying to
remember how apt remembers that it wants to install version 1.0x. ISTR
dpkg --get-selections/--set-selections is involved, but i'm not sure.
See if the output of 'dpkg --get-selections | grep libtheora0' gives
anything useful.

Steve
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