Re: Can't install gtkmm (package manager won't install libgtkmm-2.4-dev)

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Mon, 2008-08-04 at 16:12 -0700, Garth's KidStuff wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Help!  I'm trying to install a build environment on a machine I just
> installed Ubuntu 8.04.1 on and the package manager won't install
> libgtkmm-2.4-dev.  It gives the following message:
>
> libgtkmm-2.4-dev:
>  Depends: libatk1.0-dev but it is not going to be installed
>  Depends: libcairomm-1.0-dev but it is not going to be installed
>  Depends: libglibmm-2.4-dev but it is not going to be installed
>  Depends: libgtk2.0-dev but it is not going to be installed
>
> If I try to install some of the dependencies, I get this message:
> libglib2.0-dev:
>   Depends: libglib2.0-0 (=2.16.3-1ubuntu2) but 2.16.4-0ubuntu2 is to be
> installed     
>
> This used to work -- I installed this build environment on a machine just a
> couple of months ago and know I'm, not doing anything different.  Anyone
> have any ideas?
>
> Thanks tons in advance -- this is seriously killing my productivity!

This is unusual on a stable Ubuntu release. Anyway, Ubuntu's launchpad
is the best place to get help about it, I guess.

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