While getting a Mimo 7″ touchscreen USB monitor working earlier I needed to install some packages however when attempting to do so I received an error. Initially I thought that I had broken something on a system I had just installed BackTrack Linux on however that was not the case. Below I describe the error received in more detail as well as how to resolve the issue.
Error Installing xorg-dev On Backtrack Linux:
- root@bt:~/xorg.conf.d# apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r) xorg-dev
- 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:
- xorg-dev: Depends: libxfont-dev but it is not going to be installed
- E: Broken packages
- root@bt:~/xorg.conf.d#
The issue ended up being that I had recently upgraded however I did not update after upgrading so some of the repository URL’s were now incorrect and apt-get could not find the dependencies that sere preferred. To resolve the error issue the below command and then install xorg-dev again.
Resolve Error Received While Attempting To Install xorg-dev On Backtrack Linux:
- root@bt:~/xorg.conf.d# apt-get update
- Hit http://all.repository.backtrack-linux.org revolution Release.gpg
- Ign http://all.repository.backtrack-linux.org/ revolution/main Translation-en_US
- Ign http://all.repository.backtrack-linux.org/ revolution/microverse Translation-en_US
- Get:1 http://updates.repository.backtrack-linux.org revolution Release.gpg [197B]
- Ign http://updates.repository.backtrack-linux.org/ revolution/main Translation-en_US
- Hit http://64.repository.backtrack-linux.org revolution Release.gpg
- Ign http://updates.repository.backtrack-linux.org/ revolution/microverse Translation-en_US
- Ign http://64.repository.backtrack-linux.org/ revolution/main Translation-en_US
- Ign http://64.repository.backtrack-linux.org/ revolution/microverse Translation-en_US
- Ign http://all.repository.backtrack-linux.org/ revolution/non-free Translation-en_US
- Ign http://all.repository.backtrack-linux.org/ revolution/testing Translation-en_US
- Hit http://all.repository.backtrack-linux.org revolution Release
- Ign http://64.repository.backtrack-linux.org/ revolution/non-free Translation-en_US
- Ign http://64.repository.backtrack-linux.org/ revolution/testing Translation-en_US
- Hit http://64.repository.backtrack-linux.org revolution Release
- Ign http://updates.repository.backtrack-linux.org/ revolution/non-free Translation-en_US
- Ign http://updates.repository.backtrack-linux.org/ revolution/testing Translation-en_US
- Get:2 http://updates.repository.backtrack-linux.org revolution Release [13.5kB]
- Hit http://all.repository.backtrack-linux.org revolution/main Packages
- Hit http://64.repository.backtrack-linux.org revolution/main Packages
- Get:3 http://updates.repository.backtrack-linux.org revolution/main Packages [10.7MB]
- Hit http://all.repository.backtrack-linux.org revolution/microverse Packages
- Hit http://all.repository.backtrack-linux.org revolution/non-free Packages
- Hit http://all.repository.backtrack-linux.org revolution/testing Packages
- Hit http://64.repository.backtrack-linux.org revolution/microverse Packages
- Hit http://64.repository.backtrack-linux.org revolution/non-free Packages
- Hit http://64.repository.backtrack-linux.org revolution/testing Packages
- Get:4 http://updates.repository.backtrack-linux.org revolution/microverse Packages [14B]
- Get:5 http://updates.repository.backtrack-linux.org revolution/non-free Packages [14B]
- Get:6 http://updates.repository.backtrack-linux.org revolution/testing Packages [14B]
- Fetched 10.7MB in 21s (504kB/s)
- Reading package lists... Done
- root@bt:~/xorg.conf.d#
Now that the repo URL’s are updated attempt to install xorg-dev again which should now be successful as shown below.
Install xorg-dev On Backtrack Linux:
- root@bt:~/xorg.conf.d# apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r) xorg-dev
- #
Now xorg-dev is installed and you can proceed with your previous tasks.
