On Thursday 10 September 2020 at 13:57:25, Haines Brown wrote:

> It seems iceweasal-uxp-dev depends on iceweasel-uxp, which is not
> available in the Beowulf package repository:
>
> 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:
> iceweasel-uxp-dev : Depends: iceweasel-uxp (= 2.9-1~3.0gnuinos1) but
> it is not installable
> E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
>
> I find now
>

> $ aptitude search iceweasel-uxp
> BB  iceweasel-uxp-dev               - Safe and easy...

>
> No idea what the BB status means. I try to install this from the
> package archive

https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/aptitude/ch02s02s02.en.html emaplains those
status letters.

You might also find
https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/aptitude/rn01re01.en.html and
https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch02.en.html
useful to peruse.


Antony.

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