Re: [tlug] Dependancy hell

[Botond Botyanszki <tlug@??>]

On Sat, 03 Mar 2007 23:08:31 +0900
Dave M G <martin@??> wrote:

> TLUG.
> 
> I'm trying to install the GIMP development package, libgimp2.0-dev.
> 
> When I tried to install it with Synaptic, it said:
> 
> Depends: libgtk2.0-dev but it is not going to be installed
> 
> So then I tried to install libgtk2.0-dev, but it said:
> 
> Depends: libgtk2.0-0 (=2.10.6-) but 2.10.6-0ubuntu3 is to be 
> installed
> 
> After that, I there doesn't seem to be any way to get the right version 
> of libgtk so that this will work.
> 
> Is there a way out of this dependency hell?

I doubt that there is any significant difference between 0ubuntu1 and
0ubuntu3, so just go ahead and install it with --force-depends. It should
be corrected on the next upgrade.

-- 
boti

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