Xpra: Ticket #793: dependency problems on Ubuntu 14.10

When I try to install xpra/winswitch from the repositories on Ubuntu Utopic (using these instructions: http://winswitch.org/downloads/debian-repository.html) I get the error included below.I am installing the stable builds, not the beta builds.

Probably some packages are just mis-named in the dependencies list.

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 resolve the situation:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 xpra : Depends: libavcodec56 (>= 6:11~beta1) but it is not installable or
                 libavcodec-extra-56 (>= 6:11) but it is not installable
        Depends: libavutil54 (>= 6:11~beta1) but it is not installable
        Depends: libswscale3 (>= 6:11~beta1) but it is not installable
        Recommends: python-lz4 but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.


Sun, 25 Jan 2015 12:03:46 GMT - Antoine Martin: owner, status changed

Oh, thanks for the report. That's strange because the dependencies are generated: we only specify libavcodec-dev as a Build-Depends, the rest happens automagically.

I will check in a VM.


Sun, 25 Jan 2015 18:59:00 GMT - Yurlungur:

Replying to totaam:

Oh, thanks for the report. That's strange because the dependencies are generated: we only specify libavcodec-dev as a Build-Depends, the rest happens automagically.

I will check in a VM.

Oh, weird. Thanks for looking into it!


Mon, 26 Jan 2015 11:48:53 GMT - Antoine Martin: owner, status changed

I've just checked it in a virtual machine and I see no such problem. Maybe you need to add the http://packages.ubuntu.com/utopic/libavutil54? (ie: sudo add-apt-repository universe)


Mon, 26 Jan 2015 13:19:58 GMT - Yurlungur: status changed; resolution set

Replying to totaam:

I've just checked it in a virtual machine and I see no such problem. Maybe you need to add the http://packages.ubuntu.com/utopic/libavutil54? (ie: sudo add-apt-repository universe)

Ah... You're right. That was the problem. Sorry for bothering you with this.


Mon, 26 Jan 2015 13:21:47 GMT - Antoine Martin:

No problem at all, we should have included this information on the download page - that's now done thanks to your report: http://winswitch.org/trac/changeset/5303.


Sat, 23 Jan 2021 05:06:08 GMT - migration script:

this ticket has been moved to: https://github.com/Xpra-org/xpra/issues/793