im having trouble installing battle for wesnoth in ubuntu 9.10 help

golgo · 02-03-2010, 11:59 AM

hello i try to install battle for wesnoth im using ubuntu 9.10 and this is what it comes out when i run it on terminal:

daniel@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install wesnoth
[sudo] password for daniel:
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:
wesnoth: Depends: wesnoth-core (>= 1:1.6.5-1) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: wesnoth-core (< 1:1.6.5-1.~) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: wesnoth-httt (= 1:1.6.5-1) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: wesnoth-tsg (= 1:1.6.5-1) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: wesnoth-trow (= 1:1.6.5-1) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: wesnoth-ttb (= 1:1.6.5-1) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: wesnoth-ei (= 1:1.6.5-1) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: wesnoth-utbs (= 1:1.6.5-1) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: wesnoth-did (= 1:1.6.5-1) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: wesnoth-nr (= 1:1.6.5-1) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: wesnoth-sof (= 1:1.6.5-1) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: wesnoth-sotbe (= 1:1.6.5-1) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: wesnoth-l (= 1:1.6.5-1) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: wesnoth-aoi (= 1:1.6.5-1) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: wesnoth-thot (= 1:1.6.5-1) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: wesnoth-low (= 1:1.6.5-1) but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages
daniel@ubuntu:~$

snowday · 02-03-2010, 12:48 PM

Try this first:

Code:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install wesnoth-core

Does that solve the problem?

golgo · 02-04-2010, 11:10 AM

this comes out when i put the commands on the terminal:

daniel@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install wesnoth-core
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:
wesnoth-core: Depends: libboost-iostreams1.38.0 (>= 1.38.0-1) but it is not installable
Depends: libboost-regex1.38.0 (>= 1.38.0-1) but it is not installable
E: Broken packages
daniel@ubuntu:~$

snowday · 02-04-2010, 11:19 AM

You forgot to do:

Code:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

first, like I suggested in post #2.