[GRASS-dev] Unable to install grass-core on debian 10 (buster)

[Moritz Lennert]

On 18/05/20 14:48, Moritz Lennert wrote:
> On 18/05/20 14:26, aborruso wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I would like to run some grass processes via sh scripts.
>>
>> After running "sudo apt-get install grass-core", I have:
>>
>>
>> "The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>>   grass-core : Depends: libgdal26 (>= 2.2.0) but it is not going to be
>> installed
>>                Depends: libnetcdf18 (>= 3.6.1) but it is not going to be
>> installed
>>                Depends: libpdal-base10 (>= 1.8.0) but it is not going 
>> to be
>> installed
>>                Recommends: gdal-bin but it is not going to be installed
>> E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages."
>>
>> If I run "sudo apt-get install  libgdal26 libnetcdf18 libpdal-base10", I
>> have:
>>
>> "The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>>   libgdal26 : Depends: libhdf5-103-1 but it is not going to be installed
>>   libnetcdf18 : Depends: libhdf5-103-1 but it is not going to be 
>> installed
>>                 Depends: libhdf5-hl-100 but it is not going to be 
>> installed
>> E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages."
>>
>> And finally if I run "sudo apt-get install  libhdf5-103-1 
>> libhdf5-hl-100" I
>> have:
>>
>> "The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>>   libhdf5-103-1 : Breaks: libhdf5-103 but 1.10.4+repack-11 is to be 
>> installed
>>   libhdf5-hl-100 : Conflicts: libhdf5-103 (< 1.10.5) but 
>> 1.10.4+repack-11 is
>> to be installed
>> E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages."

Looking at this again, I'm wondering: In buster, grass-core depends 
libgdal20 (2.4.0+dfsg-1 et autres)  and on libhdf5-103 
(1.10.4+repack-10), so why is it trying to install libgdal26 and 
libhdf5-103-1 and 1.10.4+repack-11 ? Have you added some other 
repositories to your apt configuration ?

Moritz