[Ubuntu] How to fix the unmet dependencies for grass-gui ?

[Alex Mandel]

Thanks for reporting. Likely an error on our part in the packaging. Will
get someone to look into it.

Thanks,
Alex

On 03/21/2015 04:05 AM, Luís de Sousa wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> I have the ubuntugis-unstable PPA registered in my sources.list
> (Ubuntu 14.04). Two days ago an automatic system update tried to
> install the new grass 7 meta-package, which failed due to unmet
> dependencies. Right now I have different versions of grass-core and
> grass-gui installed and grass fails to start.
> 
> Apt reports the following:
> 
> $ sudo apt-get build-dep grass-gui
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> Picking 'grass' as source package instead of 'grass-gui'
> Note, selecting 'libtiff5-dev' instead of 'libtiff-dev'
> The following packages have unmet dependencies.
>  libcairo2-dev : Depends: libcairo2 (= 1.13.0~20140204-0ubuntu1) but
> 1.13.0~20140204-0ubuntu1.1 is to be installed
>                  Depends: libcairo-gobject2 (=
> 1.13.0~20140204-0ubuntu1) but 1.13.0~20140204-0ubuntu1.1 is to be
> installed
>                  Depends: libfontconfig1-dev (>= 2.2.95) but it is not
> going to be installed
>                  Depends: libglib2.0-dev but it is not going to be installed
>  libproj-dev : Depends: libproj0 (= 4.8.0-2ubuntu2) but 4.8.0-4~saucy2
> is to be installed
> E: Build-dependencies for grass-gui could not be satisfied.
> 
> I have tried the basic tricks in the book to fix these dependencies:
> install -f, autoclean, etc, to no avail. The following step would be
> to remove the PPA altogether, which obviously I can not do because I
> need grass.
> 
> Could I get these dependencies from a different PPA? Otherwise, would
> there be any other way of getting grass running again? I do not mind
> continuing to use grass 6.4.
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Luís
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