[Neurodebian-users] python package muddle

[Yaroslav Halchenko]

let's start with you sharing  information of what is your system
(debian? ubuntu?  which release? may be output of apt-cache policy)

On Tue, 30 Oct 2012, Morgan Hough wrote:

> Hi there,

> I was trying to install cmp (connectome mapper) but I didn't have python-traitsgui installed. If I try that I get:

> mhough at cerebrum:~/Development/cmp$ sudo apt-get install python-traitsgui
> 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:
>  python-traitsgui : Depends: python-traitsbackendwx but it is not going to be installed or
>                              python-traitsbackendqt but it is not going to be installed
> E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

> If I try and install python-traitsbackendwx

> mhough at cerebrum:~/Development/cmp$ sudo apt-get install python-traitsbackendwx
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree       
> Reading state information... Done
> The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
>   libqscintilla2-8 python-numexpr python-sphinx libx264-120 python-pygments
>   python-cfflib python-dipy-lib sphinx-doc python-nipype docutils-common
>   python-qscintilla2 python-h5py python-lxml mencoder libjs-underscore
>   libmp3lame0 python-docutils python-vtk sphinx-common liblzo2-2 python-dipy
>   docutils-doc python-tables python-markupsafe python-roman python-jinja2
>   tcl-vtk libjs-sphinxdoc
> Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
> The following extra packages will be installed:
>   python-traitsgui
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
>   connectomeviewer mayavi2 python-apptools python-chaco python-enable
>   python-envisage python-pyface python-surfer python-traitsui
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>   python-traitsbackendwx python-traitsgui

> Does anyone have some suggestions to how I can track down the specific problem or perhaps know what might be happening here? I did try things like apt-get clean, etc. already. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. 

> While I am sending something anyway I just want to say how cool the fsl_sub/condor integration is. 

> Cheers,

> -Morgan
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