Ubuntu SDK does not install on clean 12.04 LTS (64bit)
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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[obsolete] Ubuntu QtCreator Plugins |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
I have a VM of a clean 12.04 64bit - taken from our Continuous Integration system so it is a tried and tested VM. However, when using it and following the instructions on the site (http://
$ sudo apt-get install qtdeclarative5-
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.
qtdeclarative5-
qtdeclarative5-
but 1.0.0bzr25precise0 is to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
I have found that there is a 2.8.1.2bzr90pre
https:/
However attempting to install this results in:
$ sudo dpkg -i /home/smokey/
Selecting previously unselected package qtcreator-
(Reading database ... 265942 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking qtcreator-
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of qtcreator-
qtcreator-
Package android-tools-adb is not installed.
qtcreator-
Package devscripts is not installed.
qtcreator-
Package libqt5scripttools5 is not installed.
qtcreator-
Package ubuntu-
qtcreator-
Package ubuntu-
dpkg: error processing qtcreator-
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Processing triggers for bamfdaemon ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
qtcreator-
The documentation suggests that the SDK is compatible with 12.04, so how come it can't be installed with a clean VM? Am I missing some other dependency that is not included in the documentation? Is the PPA broken?
This bug has been marked as obsolete ... what does that mean? That 12.04 is not supported? If so why as its the current LTS release and its the only version you can buy on a new machine?