[Bio-Linux] Mothur on Ubuntu 10.10

[Andor J Kiss]

$sudo apt-get install bio-linux-mothur
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:
bio-linux-mothur : Depends: mothur (>= 1.22.0) but it is not installable
                    Recommends: bio-linux-catchall but it is not
installable
E: Broken packages




On Mon, 2012-05-14 at 06:02 -0400, Tim Booth wrote: 
> Hi,
> 
> There is a dependency on Catchall but it's only a "Recommends"
> dependency so it shouldn't be strictly enforced.  How are you trying to
> install the package?  Can you please try 
> 'apt-get install bio-linux-mothur'
> and send me the full output?  Maybe I've messed something up in the
> control file.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> TIM
> 
> On Sun, 2012-05-13 at 12:25 +0100, Andor J Kiss wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> >   I'm running Ubuntu 10.10 (not vanilla BioLinux 6) and I'd like to
> > install Mothur.  I've added the BioLinux Repositories and can install
> > most software.  When I try to install the Mothur package
> > (bio-linux-mothur) I get an error that states "can't install mothur;
> > can't install bio-linux-catchall"
> > 
> > Any suggestions would be appreciated.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> 
> -- 
> Tim Booth <tbooth at ceh.ac.uk>
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