On 9/30/05, Jeff Vian <jvian10@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Resolving Dependencies > > > > --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait. > > > > ---> Package mjpegtools.i386 0:1.8.0-0.lvn.1.4 set to be updated > > > > --> Running transaction check > > > > --> Processing Dependency: libmjpegutils-1.7.so.0 for package: transcode > > > > --> Finished Dependency Resolution > > > > Error: Missing Dependency: libmjpegutils-1.7.so.0 is needed by package > > > > transcode > > > > > > > I see that livna has transcode 1.0.0-0.lvn.3.3 in their unstable repo since > > > 28th September, so its obviously being tested out. > > > > Then, if mjpegtools depends on a unstable transcode version, it would > > have been wiser not having made mjpegtools.i386 0:1.8.0-0.lvn.1.4 > > available on the stable repository. > > You are reading that backwards. Transcode depends on libmjpegtools not > the other way around. > > The transcode package installed specifically requires > libmjpegutils-1.7.so.0 and since the libmjpegutils library is being > updated and would remove that file, it fails because doing so would > break the installed dependency. > > This may be a transcode issue for requiring an explicit library file, > but appears to be related to the installed version, not the > unstable/testing version. Thanks, Jeff. Meanwhile, I uninstalled transcode and mjpegtools. Then, I Installed mjpegtools again and, subsequently, transcode, and the reported problem of dependencies disappeared. Paul
