[elbe-devel] elbe has unmet dependencies in Debian 9.0 (stretch)

[ew.foe at nassur.net]

Hello,


Quoting Lukasz Walewski <lwalewski at s-can.at>:

> Hi,
>
> I just followed the instructions on https://elbe-rfs.org/download/  
> and tried to install elbe on a fresh Debian 9.0 (stretch) system.  
> After adding the public key to the apt database and adding "deb  
> http://debian.linutronix.de/elbe stretch main" to my apt sources I  
> get unresolved dependencies:
>
> root at stretch:~# apt install elbe
> 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:
>  elbe : Depends: elbe-common (= 1.2) but it is not going to be installed
>         Depends: elbe-control (= 1.2) but it is not going to be installed
> E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
>
> After looking at the decencies of elbe-common it turns out that it  
> depends on python-pyme, which - according to  
> https://packages.debian.org/ python-pyme - is not part of stretch  
> (yet?).

I found this bit in ticket 90
https://github.com/Linutronix/elbe/issues/90

python-pyme is superseeded by python-gpg ...

I stomped into this yesterday :-)

Cheers,
Erich