Problems with Linux Repositories

floatingpoint · Post by **floatingpoint** » Thu Apr 30, 2009 4:38 pm

Yo,

I tried to get help with this over at Ubuntu Forums but I'm not getting anywhere...

I had problems with Zsnes crashing after upgrading to Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope, so I uninstalled it in teminal

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 $ sudo apt-get remove zsnes

Then I restarted.

I went to terminal, and...

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kevin@kevin-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install zsnes
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Package zsnes is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package zsnes has no installation candidate
kevin@kevin-desktop:~$

Went to Add/Remove, it won't let me check it to install.
Went to Synaptic, and when I mark it for installation I get

zsnes:

Package zsnes has no available version, but exists in the database.
This typically means that the package was mentioned in a dependency and never uploaded, has been obsoleted or is not available with the contents of sources.list

I went to software sources and checked some stuff in Third Party, then tried again, but I'm just getting the same problems.

I have found that there is a zsnes available as a package download for intel architecture but I'm running amd64. Previously I had installed it in 8.10 Intrepid Ibex by using terminal and typing "apt-get install zsnes"

Totally gutted and desperate to get it back up and running. Any help is greatly appreciated.

funkyass · Post by **funkyass** » Thu Apr 30, 2009 4:50 pm

sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get update

you'd probably need the x86-32 lib packages.

floatingpoint · Post by **floatingpoint** » Thu Apr 30, 2009 5:33 pm

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kevin@kevin-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install ia32-libs
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
ia32-libs is already the newest version.
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  libaccess-bridge-java cacao-oj6-jre-headless java-common ttf-telugu-fonts
  ttf-bengali-fonts tzdata-java mbr libdvdread3 rhino ca-certificates-java
  ttf-kannada-fonts ttf-wqy-zenhei cacao-oj6-jre-lib ttf-oriya-fonts
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
kevin@kevin-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install zsnes
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Package zsnes is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package zsnes has no installation candidate
kevin@kevin-desktop:~$

funkyass · Post by **funkyass** » Thu Apr 30, 2009 6:07 pm

the ZSNES team doesn't have a say over how canonical handles their repositories.

floatingpoint · Post by **floatingpoint** » Thu Apr 30, 2009 6:16 pm

I know that. I was just looking for some assistance.

Anyway, I managed to get some info over at Ubuntu Forums:

zsnes was available for 64-bit intrepid, but is now gone from the repos, for reasons unknown (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...es/+bug/184255).

Hopefully I can get it from the intrepid repos, failing that I'll try to force the i386 one onto my amd64.

funkyass · Post by **funkyass** » Thu Apr 30, 2009 6:38 pm

you could comple zsnes from source.

look into doing a 32-bit chroot.

floatingpoint · Post by **floatingpoint** » Thu Apr 30, 2009 8:37 pm

I found the 64bit package in the Intrepid repo, managed to get that installed. Thanks for your help funk