Problem trying to install aptitude

[jacatone]

Downloaded a deb of Aptitude and tried installing it using Kpackage and Konsole. Keep getting the same result:

Unpacking replacement aptitude ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of aptitude:
aptitude depends on libapt-pkg-libc6.3-6-3.11; however:
Package libapt-pkg-libc6.3-6-3.11 is not installed.
dpkg: error processing aptitude (--install):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
aptitude

When I trying installing libapt-pkg-libc6.3-6-3.11, I get this:

Package libapt-pkg-libc6.3-6-3.11 is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package libapt-pkg-libc6.3-6-3.11 has no installation candidate


How to I fix this? Thanks.

[lowey23]

Re: Problem trying to install aptitude

Aptitude is in the repo's and should be already installed. If not, you can install it using adept or synaptic or by typing, in a console, sudo apt-get install aptitude.

Hope this helps and hope I understood your problem.

Cheers

Lowey

[jacatone]

Re: Problem trying to install aptitude

Lowey, that's exactly what I tried if you read the post.

[penguin.ch]

Re: Problem trying to install aptitude

Downloaded a deb of Aptitude

Where from

[Snowhog]

Re: Problem trying to install aptitude

My guess would be either from:
http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/s...words=aptitude
or
http://packages.debian.org/testing/admin/aptitude

[lowey23]

Re: Problem trying to install aptitude

I did read your post. Again, aptitude should be installed etc etc etc.

Why would you try to install it from a .deb?

[jacatone]

Re: Problem trying to install aptitude

Because when I try using Adept of Kpackage, it says it's "broken" and can't install it. I saved a bunch of .deb files from my previous Mepis install. They all installed without a problem except aptitude. Thanks.

[penguin.ch]

Re: Problem trying to install aptitude

a bunch of .deb files from my previous Mepis install

Which may or may not fit into a Kubuntu install ...

From my point of view, you'd either forget about Aptitude (which, to put that straight, on my systems is not even installed as I'm using APT/DPKG directly or via Synaptic) - or resolve the broken dependencies by hand (if possible) ...