How do I force apt-get to install a package that will not install due to a bug introduced by Ubuntu 11.10?
- by Hemm
Ubuntu 11.10 separated out python-profiler from the Python standard library due to licensing philosophies. (According to what I could Google, correct me if I'm wrong.)
This is an active bug since October for 11.10. I have Python 2.7.2 installed, so the dependency errors are wrong. 'apt-get check' does not resolve the problem.
What is the best way to resolve to this? Thank you.
sudo apt-get install python-profiler
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:
python-profiler : Depends: python (>= 2.5) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: python (< 2.8) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
