Hello, On Wed, 2025-10-15 at 15:03 +0200, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > No vim/gvim ! > > ~$ sudo apt-get install vim-gtk3 > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree... Done > Reading state information... Done > Solving dependencies... Error! > 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: > vim-gtk3 : Depends: vim-common (= 2:9.1.1230-2) but 2:9.1.1846-1 is to > be installed > Depends: vim-gui-common (= 2:9.1.1230-2) but it is not > going to be installed > Depends: vim-runtime (= 2:9.1.1230-2) but it is not going > to be installed > E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. > E: The following information from --solver 3.0 may provide additional > context: > Unable to satisfy dependencies. Reached two conflicting decisions: > 1. vim-gtk3:sparc64=2:9.1.1230-2 is selected for install > 2. vim-gtk3:sparc64 Depends vim-common (= 2:9.1.1230-2) > but none of the choices are installable: > [no choices] > > vim-common is missing (in fact, I miss it even from the command line)
vim is currently broken due to FTBFS in unstable, see this discussion with a solution: https://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2025/10/msg00017.html > emacs? Neither > > sudo apt-get install emacs > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree... Done > Reading state information... Done > Solving dependencies... Error! > 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: > emacs : Depends: emacs-gtk (>= 1:30.1) but it is not installable or > emacs-pgtk (>= 1:30.1) but it is not installable or > emacs-lucid (>= 1:30.1) but it is not installable or > emacs-nox (>= 1:30.1) but it is not installable > E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. > E: The following information from --solver 3.0 may provide additional > context: > Unable to satisfy dependencies. Reached two conflicting decisions: > 1. emacs-nox:sparc64 is selected for install because: > 1. emacs:sparc64=1:30.1+1-9 is selected for install > 2. emacs:sparc64 Depends emacs-gtk (>= 1:30.1) | emacs-pgtk (>= > 1:30.1) | emacs-lucid (>= 1:30.1) | emacs-nox (>= 1:30.1) > [selected emacs:sparc64] > For context, additional choices that could not be installed: > * In emacs:sparc64 Depends emacs-gtk (>= 1:30.1) | emacs-pgtk (>= > 1:30.1) | emacs-lucid (>= 1:30.1) | emacs-nox (>= 1:30.1): > - emacs-gtk:sparc64 is not selected for install > - emacs-pgtk:sparc64 is not selected for install > - emacs-lucid:sparc64 is not selected for install > 2. emacs-nox:sparc64 Depends libtree-sitter0.22 (>= 0.22.4) > but none of the choices are installable: > [no choices] > > > I just saw a bug in the PPC mailing list that there are issues on PPC64 > tree-sitter-c. Maybe they spill over to sparc? or they are not related > > https://buildd.debian.org/status/logs.php?pkg=tree-sitter-c > > on Sparc it is not installable > https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=tree-sitter-c It requires NodeJS to build which currently does not exist on sparc64. No idea what tree-sitter-c does and why it needs NodeJS. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer `. `' Physicist `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
