libqt4-opengl cannot be installed as it requires earlier versions

Bug #672657 reported by TheOldFellow

This bug report was converted into a question: question #133280: libqt4-opengl cannot be installed as it requires earlier versions.

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qt4-x11 (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: libqt4-opengl

Prevents installing VirtualBox.
Maverick AMD-64. Fully up to date.

apt-cache policy libqt4-opengl
libqt4-opengl:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 4:4.7.0-0ubuntu4
  Version table:
     4:4.7.0-0ubuntu4.1 0
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     4:4.7.0-0ubuntu4 0
        500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/main amd64 Packages

sudo apt-get install libqt4-opengl
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.
 libqt4-opengl : Depends: libqtcore4 (= 4:4.7.0-0ubuntu4) but 4:4.7.0-0ubuntu4.1 is to be installed
                 Depends: libqtgui4 (= 4:4.7.0-0ubuntu4) but 4:4.7.0-0ubuntu4.1 is to be installed
E: Broken packages

Revision history for this message
TheOldFellow (theoldfellow) wrote :

This appears to be the same problem as this one.
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qt4-x11/+question/132957

Revision history for this message
TheOldFellow (theoldfellow) wrote :

It seems that the system allows unofficial software to installed without any warning. How can this be avoided? By just using software that comes from Canonical - if so then Ubuntu is no better than Windows. There surely should be some warning when a package seeks to upgrade an official release to a later version?

Changed in qt4-x11 (Ubuntu):
status: New → Invalid
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