>The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> bfl: Depends: orocos-bfl but it is not going to be installed
> Depends: orocos-bfl-dev but it is not going to be installed
> Depends: orocos-bfl-examples but it is not going to be installed
>
> E: Broken packages
> Any ideas about what I need to do to get BFL installed? I also tried:
> sudo apt-get install orocos-bfl
> and I get some similar output except there are different "unmet dependencies":
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:

Hi there,

The bfl packages indeed had some wrong dependencies,
these should be solved with the new packages.
So please update and try again!

Let me know of this works!

Tinne

> Hi guys,
>
> I'm real new to Linux and I'm trying to install the precompiled bfl library using the instructions provided on the Installation guide for the precompiled version. When I type the following command,

> sudo apt-get install bfl

- What distro (ubuntu/debian) and what version (feisty, dapper/ etch)
are you using?
- What was the line you added to /etc/apt/sources.list

Klaas
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On Tuesday 26 June 2007 22:54:30 lmcnair wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I'm real new to Linux and I'm trying to install the precompiled bfl library
> using the instructions provided on the Installation guide for the
> precompiled version. When I type the following command,
>
> sudo apt-get install bfl
>
> I get the following output:
>
> 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:
> bfl: Depends: orocos-bfl but it is not going to be installed
> Depends: orocos-bfl-dev but it is not going to be installed
> Depends: orocos-bfl-examples but it is not going to be installed
> E: Broken packages
>
>
> Any ideas about what I need to do to get BFL installed? I also tried:
>
> sudo apt-get install orocos-bfl
>
> and I get some similar output except there are different "unmet
> dependencies":
>
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> orocos-bfl: Depends: libc6 (>= 2.5-0ubuntu1) but 2.3.6-0ubuntu20.4 is to
> be installed Depends: libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.2) but 1:4.0.3-1ubuntu5 is to be
> installed Depends: libstdc++6 (>= 4.1.2) but 4.0.3-1ubuntu5 is to be
> installed E: Broken packages
>
>
> I have the latest versions of all the packages listed above (ie. libc6,
> libgcc1, libstdc++6), so I don't understand what is wrong with the
> installation.

Apparently, the version you have of the above packages is still lower than the
one the packages are using. In fact, I made the packages on a ubuntu feisty
distro, so it's possible that is expects some higher versions of libgcc, ....
which are not available in dapper.
I will have a look at the problem, but in the meanwhile there are different
solutions to the problem:
a) you use the installation instructions to compile BFL from source, this
should work for any ubuntu version for sure!
b) you upgrade your ubuntu to feisty and you can use the bfl packages out of
the box.

Also note thate the " E: Broken packages" error has nothing to do with the
orocos-bfl packages, I suppose you have some other problems on your system.
Probably googling can help you in this matter.

Good luck, and keep us up to date with your progress,

Tinne
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