Re: [Evolution] Debian: unmet dependencies for Evolution

[Peter Teichman <peter helixcode com>]

On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 09:48:46PM +0700, David Sims wrote:
> (I hope this message isn't off-topic)
>
> On my Debian Woody system (as well as a friend's Debian Woody system), I
> get the following dependency error when trying to install Evolution. For
> the record, Evolution 0.6 installed great on my Red Hat box using Helix
> Update.
>
>
> Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
>   evolution: Depends: libbonobo1 (< 0.24) but 0.26-0.1 is to be installed
>              Depends: libgtkhtml5 (>= 0.7) but it is not going to be installed
>              Depends: bonobo (< 0.24) but 0.26-0.1 is to be installed
> E: Sorry, broken packages
>
>
> Here are the two spidermonkey.helixcode lines from my
> /etc/apt/sources.list:
>
>
> deb http://spidermonkey.helixcode.com/distributions/debian unstable main
> deb http://spidermonkey.helixcode.com/evolution/distributions/Debian ./

You will find the two packages you need (libbonobo and bonobo) in that
second apt source. You will have to download them manually - the
Debian maintainer of bonobo has uploaded a newer, incompatible
version. That version is overriding the correct one in apt, since it
has a newer version number.

Peter