Pisound-btn install failure on jessie

Hello

I’ve got the same problem, but I am running Jessie.

sudo apt install pisound

Similar output to above:

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:
 pisound : Depends: pisound-btn but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Digging a bit further, tried to install pisound-btn:

sudo apt install pisound-btn

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:
 pisound-btn : Depends: python-urwid (>= 1.3) but 1.2.1-2 is to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

So there seems to be a dependency on python-urwind >= 1.3 and I have 1.2 installed.

apt-cache policy python-urwid

Output:

python-urwid:
  Installed: 1.2.1-2
  Candidate: 1.2.1-2
  Version table:
 *** 1.2.1-2 0
        500 http://mirrordirector.raspbian.org/raspbian/ jessie/main armhf Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

I don’t appear to have 1.3 available. Maybe there’s a dependency here on Stretch?

Seems so:

https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=python-urwid

Doesn’t look like I can get this package on Jessie via backports either. Any ideas, other than upgrading to Stretch (which isn’t an option for me)?

Hi, thank you for reporting this. We’ll soon get it fixed from our side, I’ll let you know once it’s done.

@stever it should be fixed now, try running:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install pisound-btn
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Excellent. Yes, thank you. That’s it sorted now :slight_smile: