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

[Justin Mason]

Matej Cepl writes:
> Justin Mason wrote:
> > Anyone got any tips at this stage?  How can I install the ffmpeg
> > build-deps?
> 
> I would just go ahead and fix debian/control file Build-Depends: field. It
> doesn't make any sense to use different version of -dev package than the
> binary library it supports, and you have actually newer version of
> libtheora than what is required.

Thanks  -- but I think it's actually *not* a newer version of
the package; instead I think the package installed from
the marillat repo  was installed a while previously, but used
an incorrect version number (hence *appearing* to be newer).

--j.

> Make your own version (dch -i in the top package directory and make yourself
> new record in changelog) and then fix debian/control, and run
> dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot
> 
> Good luck!
> 
> Matěj
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