Bug#538369: [wordnet] wordnet fails to install because of unmet wordnet-base dependency

[Lior Chen]

On Monday 03 August 2009 11:02:59 you wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Jul 2009, Lior Chen wrote:
> > As i understand both packages are from unstable. I also tried removing
> > them (dpkg --purge) and reinstalling again, but it produced the same
> > dependency error.
> >
> >
> > orion:~# apt-cache policy wordnet wordnet-base
> > wordnet:
> >  Installed: (none)
> >  Candidate: 1:3.0-15
> >  Version table:
> >     1:3.0-15 0
> >        500 http://mirror.hamakor.org.il unstable/main Packages
> >        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
> > wordnet-base:
> >  Installed: 1:3.0-16
> >  Candidate: 1:3.0-16
> >  Version table:
> > *** 1:3.0-16 0
> >        500 http://mirror.hamakor.org.il unstable/main Packages
> >        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>
> Have you checked your installation?
> As I told you I suspect a problem on the mirror you are using.  If I
> do not hear any confirmation from you I will close the bug after about
> 2 weeks.

Sorry for the late reply.

I get the exact same error with the 
deb http://ftp.debian.org/ unstable main contrib non-free
mirror.

orion:~# apt-cache policy wordnet wordnet-base
wordnet:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 1:3.0-15
  Version table:
     1:3.0-15 0
        500 http://ftp.debian.org unstable/main Packages
wordnet-base:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 1:3.0-16
  Version table:
     1:3.0-16 0
        500 http://ftp.debian.org unstable/main Packages


orion:~# apt-get install wordnet
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:
  wordnet: Depends: wordnet-base (= 1:3.0-15) but it is not going to be 
installed
E: Broken packages


Thanks,
Lior.