Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3139 mails)

[Leendert Meyer <leen.meyer@xxxxxxx>]

On Monday 23 October 2006 13:34, Duff Mckagan wrote:
> On 10/23/06, Duff Mckagan <mckagan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On 10/23/06, Ed Harrison <eharrison@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > ** Reply to message from Duff Mckagan <mckagan@xxxxxxxxx> on
> > > Mon, 23 Oct 2006 13:41:39 +0530
> > >
> > > > I cannot install some softwares.
> > > > The reason being ..the packages are unsigned!!
> > > >
> > > > How do I install unsigned packages with apt-get?
> > >
> > > Go to /etc/apt/conf.d and edit the file "gpg-checker.conf" by
> > > adding the line "GPG::Check no;"
> > >
> > > This stop checking signatures.  There are also some packages
> > > available that start "rpmkeys" that provide the signatures.
>
> Thanks. But what are the disadvantages of not checking signatures?
> I hear the packages will never get updated if they don't have
> signatures or something like that...

I think you heard wrong. You just need to permit the installation 
with the --no-ch switch. But better install the signatures aka 
rpmkeys.

> Also, while installing some packages, I get an error saying that
> some packages are not "installable".
>
> For example, I tried installing FrostWire and it gave me the
> following errors.
>
>
> OPPERSKULL:~ # apt-get install FrostWire
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... 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.
>
> Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely
> that the package is simply not installable and a bug report
> against that package should be filed.
> The following information may help to resolve the situation:
>
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>   FrostWire: Depends: bsh2 but it is not installable
>              Depends: icu4j but it is not installable
>              Depends: jakarta-commons-net but it is not
> installable Depends: jmdns but it is not installable
> E: Broken packages

That means apt couldn't find the packages mentioned, i.e. bsh2, 
icu4j, jakarta-commons-net, and jmdns.

You need to find a repository for your SUSE version that has those 
packages, and add that repository to /etc/apt/sources.list.

Then try again, and hopefully all needed packages can be found.

Cheers,

Leen