[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 old package is from the marillat repository, way back when.  Clearly
<snip>
> I must have had the marillat apt repo in my sources.list at some stage.

Bingo.

> sudo apt-get remove libtheora0 , then a sudo apt-get install of all the
> packages that that removed, fixed it.

A slightly less painful way to do this is:

   apt-get install libtheora0=0.0.0.alpha5-0ubuntu2

Apt will warn you that you're downgrading the package version, but
should work just fine.

> Thanks Stephen!

Np.

Steve
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