Unable to install latest DMD from D-Apt

[H. S. Teoh]

On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 03:51:48AM +0200, Rene Zwanenburg wrote:
[...]
> apt-get install dmd-bin
> 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:
>  dmd-bin : Depends: libphobos2-dev (= 2.063.2-0) but it is not going
> to be installed
> E: Broken packages
> ----
> 
> Installing packages which are (I think) built with the latest dmd
> doesn't work either:
> 
> ----
> apt-get install dub
> 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:
>  dub : Depends: libphobos2-63 but it is not going to be installed
> E: Broken packages
> ----
> 
> Out of curiosity I tried to install libphobos2-63 manually:
> 
> ----
> apt-get install libphobos2-63
> 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:
>  libphobos2-63 : PreDepends: multiarch-support but it is not
> installable
> E: Broken packages
> ----
> 
> I'm not even sure where to begin. Can anyone point me in the right
> direction?

What version of Debian are you running? It seems that you may be using a
rather old release that doesn't have multiarch support yet? That will
make a lot of newer things uninstallable.

Try apt-get install multiarch-support and see what it says?


T

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