Gutsy: apt-get won't load dosemu and freedos

[larryalk]

in Gutsy, apt-get or adept won't load dosemu and dosemu-freedos.
I have done apt-get dosemu but the install is not complete - it needs freedos.
When I try to load dosemu-freedos it gives the errors below.

I'll probably report this as a bug but I need dosemu completely working now like it was in Feisty.

When I try to install dosemu-freedos the error message is:
There was an error commiting changes. Possibly there was a problem downloading some packages or the commit would break packages.

apt-get install dosemu-freedos gives a more complete error message:
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.

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:
dosemu-freedos: Depends: dosemu but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages

Any ideas on how I can get past this?

Larryalk

[Snowhog]

You can attempt:

sudo apt-get install dosemenu dosemu-freedos

This is a multi-package install request using apt-get.

[larryalk]

Hello Snowhog and thanks for your reply.

"You can attempt:
sudo apt-get install dosemenu dosemu-freedos
This is a multi-package install request using apt-get.
"

This is the result of the above command:

root@kinda dosemu # agi dosemu dosemu-freedos
sudo: cannot get working directory
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:
dosemu: Conflicts: dosemu-freedos
E: Broken packages


Any suggestions from here?

Larry

[Snowhog]

dosemu-freedos 1:0.0.b9r5a-3 (i386 binary) in ubuntu gutsy (http://launchpadlibrarian.net/5061517/dosemu-freedos_0.0.b9r5a-3_i386.deb)
Download to your desktop, right-click and select to install.

[larryalk]

Hello Snowhog.

I downloaded the deb file you suggested and tried to run it with and without dosemu installed.
In each case I got a dependency error message.


This one is with dosemu removed with 'apt-get remove dosemu':

root@kinda dl # dpkg -i dosemu-freedos_0.0.b9r5a-3_i386.deb
(Reading database ... 90145 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking dosemu-freedos (from dosemu-freedos_0.0.b9r5a-3_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of dosemu-freedos:
dosemu-freedos depends on dosemu; however:
Package dosemu is not installed.
dpkg: error processing dosemu-freedos (--install):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
dosemu-freedos

Is there any way to tell what specific dependencies are causing the problem?

Larry

[Fintan]

I got dosemu to install just fine with synaptic on my gutsy machine.

Try to install dosemu-freedos with synaptic gave me this: dosemu-freedos depends on dosemu but dosemu will not be installed. Or something to that effect.

[kubicle]

dosemu 1.4 -package provides dosemu-freedos so you don't need 'dosemu-freedos' package.

dosemu 1.4 conflicts with 'dosemu-freedos' package, which means they cannot both be installed

[Fintan]

Makes sense thanks :)