On 11/02/2012 04:45 PM, JC Lawrence wrote: > The current version of gfortran in 12.0 LTS depends on gfortran-4.6, which in > turn depends on GCC-4.6 (=, not >=), which can't be satisfied as the only GCC > release in 12.0 is 4.6.1-2. Is this likely to be resolved soon? I need > gfortran and am having the very devil of a time building GCC and thus > gfortran from sources (arghh!). > > # apt-get install gfortran > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... 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: > gfortran : Depends: gfortran-4.6 (>= 4.6.1-1) but it is not going to be > installed > > # apt-get install gfortran-4.6 > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... 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: > gfortran-4.6 : Depends: gcc-4.6-base (= 4.6.1-9ubuntu3) but 4.6.3-1ubuntu5 > is to be installed > Depends: gcc-4.6 (= 4.6.1-9ubuntu3) but 4.6.3-1ubuntu5 is to > be installed > Depends: libgfortran3 (>= 4.6.1-9ubuntu3) but it is not going > to be installed > E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. > > # apt-cache show gcc > Package: gcc > Priority: optional > Section: devel > Installed-Size: 64 > Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com> > Original-Maintainer: Debian GCC Maintainers <debian-...@lists.debian.org> > Architecture: amd64 > Source: gcc-defaults (1.107ubuntu5) > Version: 4:4.6.1-2ubuntu5 > Provides: c-compiler > Depends: cpp (>= 4:4.6.1-2ubuntu5), gcc-4.6 (>= 4.6.1-1) > Recommends: libc6-dev | libc-dev > Suggests: gcc-multilib, make, manpages-dev, autoconf, automake1.9, libtool, > flex, bison, gdb, gcc-docConflicts: gcc-doc (<< 1:2.95.3) > Filename: pool/main/g/gcc-defaults/gcc_4.6.1-2ubuntu5_amd64.deb > Size: 5110 > MD5sum: 3c7599c5c4ff882a1914af6b9bb9b4d1 > SHA1: 26f17c03232d437703276e7a8929c410aaa8f215 > SHA256: 2284f6c7ca58020dc27809a77df2faa4afa3798caa16d9a9e13d48ca58e4f8a2 > Description-en: GNU C compiler > This is the GNU C compiler, a fairly portable optimizing compiler for C. > . > This is a dependency package providing the default GNU C compiler. > Description-md5: c7efd71c7c651a9ac8b2adf36b137790 > Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug > Build-Essential: yes > Origin: Ubuntu > Supported: 18m > Task: ubuntu-desktop, ubuntu-usb, edubuntu-desktop, edubuntu-usb, > xubuntu-desktop, mythbuntu-backend-master, mythbuntu-backend-slave, > mythbuntu-desktop, mythbuntu-frontend > > -- JCL It seems like you're not using an up-to-date mirror. From my precise system: apt-cache show gfortran | grep Ver Version: 4:4.6.3-1ubuntu5
apt-cache show gfortran | grep Depen Depends: cpp (>= 4:4.6.3-1ubuntu5), gcc (>= 4:4.6.3-1ubuntu5), gfortran-4.6 (>= 4.6.3-1~) Micah -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss