Something is obviously wrong with apt-get.

[13thSlayer]

theadmin@mybox:~$sudo apt-get install kolourpaint
Then it goes all like usually but:
"kolourpaint" depends on "kolourpaint4", but it is not going to be installed.
What the? Usually all dependencies are installed automatically.

[olembe]

Re: Something is obviously wrong with apt-get.

Hmm. It looks like Kolourpaint isn't available in the repositories right now. I've just tried to install it with Aptitude and got:

No candidate version found for kolourpaint
No candidate version found for kolourpaint
No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

[Rog131]

Re: Something is obviously wrong with apt-get.

What kind of system do you have ? What repositories do you have enabled ? Have you tried to install the kolourpaint4 ?


There are (Kubuntu 9.04, KDE 4.2):

kolourpaint

Transitional package

This dummy package is provided for a smooth transition from kolourpaint to
the new package kolourpaint4.
It may safely be removed after installation.

not so smooth

kolourpaint4

simple image editor for KDE 4

KolourPaint is a simple drawing and image editing application for KDE 4.
It aims to be easy to use, providing a level of functionality targeted towards
the average user. It is ideal for common tasks such as drawing simple graphics
and touching-up photos.

This package is part of the KDE 4 graphics module.

Here:

sudo apt-get install kolourpaint4

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
...
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following NEW packages will be installed
kolourpaint4
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

[13thSlayer]

Re: Something is obviously wrong with apt-get.

Allright, i installed kolourpaint4 and it works. But i still think that is strange.

[toad]

Re: Something is obviously wrong with apt-get.

What is strange about kde4 preferring to install a kde4 package rather than a kde3 one? I would expect this behaviour. It even told you as much in the error message (I suppose it won't happen a second time )

Anyway, glad you finally got it