openoffice / other broken packages in sid

[Tim Goodaire]

On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 07:17:26PM -0400, Daniel Armstrong wrote:
> Today I did a base install of Debian on my laptop, upgraded to Sid...
> 
> ---------------------------------------
> 
> (my sources.list)
> # unstable archives
> deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
> 
> # unstable archives - src
> deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
> 
> -----------------------------------------
> 
> ... did my...
> 
> sudo apt-get update
> sudo apt-get -u dist-upgrade
> 
> ....and successfully installed xserver-xorg and a number of other
> packages. But when I tried to install OpenOffice or its components I
> get a slew of broken dependencies:
> 
> $ sudo apt-get install openoffice.org
> Password:
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... Done
> Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
> requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
> distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
> or been moved out of Incoming.
> 
> Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
> the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
> that package should be filed.
> The following information may help to resolve the situation:
> 
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>   openoffice.org: Depends: openoffice.org-debian-files (> 1.1.3+1.1.4)
> but it is not going to be installed
>                   Depends: openoffice.org-bin (> 1.1.3+1.1.4) but it
> is not going to be installed
> E: Broken packages
> 
> ------------------------------------------------
> 
> Subsequently, I found other big packages with broken installs such as
> the Gimp and Gnome. I tried a repeated install attempt after another
> apt-get update with no luck. Any other Debian users experiencing a
> pile of broken packages? Any suggested workarounds? I Googled around
> but not sure why so much appears to be broken or how to fix.

This is something that I've hit a bunch of times while running Debian
unstable. Generally, it's because "some required packages have not yet been 
created or been moved out of Incoming." 

In my experience, problems like this in unstable are usually fixed within a
day or two. It might be worthwhile for you to check the debian-user
mailing list archives and see if anyone else is experiencing this
particular problem right now.

Tim

> Thanks for any help... Daniel

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