Package: kdelibs4-dev Version: 4:3.2.2-2 Severity: normal $ apt-get -s install kdelibs4-dev libcupsys2-dev libcupsys2-gnutls10 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. The following information may help to resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies: kdelibs4-dev: Depends: kdelibs4 (= 4:3.2.2-2) but it is not going to be installed Depends: kdelibs-bin (= 4:3.2.2-2) but it is not going to be installed E: Broken packages this is plain wrong! booth packages are installed with the required version-number. adding booth packages to the line anyway states The following packages have unmet dependencies: libcupsys2-gnutls10: Conflicts: libcupsys2 but 1.1.20final+cvs20040330-3 is to be installed E: Broken packages instead trying to install libcupsys2-gnutls10 first attempts to remove the complete kde -- thus the whole operation is meaningless. i assume, a simple "Provides: libcupsys2" in the package-description of libcupsys2-gnutls10 will fix this. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.5 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C