[sane-devel] libsane-common:i386 is missing in PPA with Ubuntu 20.04

[Ralph Little]

Hi,
Looking at the PPA package details for sane-fit and sane-releases for 
the focal distro, I see libsane-common listed.


On 2021-11-05 8:41 a.m., Ulf Zibis wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I cannot install libsane:i386 because libsane-common:i386 is missing:
>
> $ LC_ALL=C sudo apt -s install libsane-common:i386 libsane1:i386 
> libsane:i386
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> Note, selecting 'libsane-common' instead of 'libsane-common:i386'
> libsane-common is already the newest version (1.0.32+git20210315-focal0).
> libsane-common set to manually installed.
> 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:
>  libsane1:i386 : Depends: libsane-common:i386 (= 1.0.32-focal0)
>                  Depends: snmp:i386 but it is not going to be installed
>                  Recommends: sane-utils:i386 (>= 1.0.32-focal0)
>                  Recommends: ipp-usb:i386 but it is not installable
> E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
>

Looking down your output, it seems to me that libsane1 is the problem 
because it depends on snmp:i386 which it cannot install.
It's not obvious to me why that would be the case. You could try 
installing the package manually to see what it says.

Another thing that you can try is to remove all the sane packages and 
install from fresh.
 From the above output, it seems like you have a package installed from 
sane-git but are trying to install now from sane-releases.
Make sure that you only have one of sane-git and sane-releases in your 
repo list.

Cheers,
Ralph