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0008835Kali LinuxKali Package Bugpublic2024-07-24 18:27
Reporternoskov3 Assigned Tosteev  
PrioritynormalSeverityminorReproducibilityhave not tried
Status closedResolutionwon't fix 
Summary0008835: Dependency issues when installing the package
Description

Good luck to everyone! I faced the following problem. OS - Kali Linux 2023, when installing the package, who cares - this is Tails-installer, I get the following message in the output:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
tails-installer : Depends: python (< 2.8) but it is not installable
Depends: python (>= 2.7) but it is not installable
Depends: python:any (>= 2.6.6-7~) but it is not installable
Depends: python-configobj but it is not installable
Depends: python-gi but it is not installable
Depends: python-urlgrabber but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Yes, I understand that there are alternatives to this package, but there will be options when there are no alternatives, I just want to learn how to solve this problem manually, because I understand it can be solved! Is it possible, in addition to the working version of Python, to install additional ones that will be in the system in parallel, is it possible to install old additional libraries that will be used only in these versions, and there should be no conflict between them? In short, I ask for help, everyone who knows how to install it all!
PS: the docker container option is not suitable, since I need this package on the host machine, plus, as I described above, I sometimes encounter such problems during installation, with dependencies on other packages and libraries, older versions! I just want to understand the algorithm of actions to solve these problems, where and what to install!
Thanks in advance to all those who responded!

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steev

steev

2024-07-24 18:27

manager   ~0019568

That is a python2 package, and python2 went EOL in January of 2020. Python2 packages have been migrated out, and the tails-installer package which was once part of debian, was removed from it in 2019. This is very old software, and it makes no sense at all to continue to use it outside of tails itself. There is nothing we can do in Kali, we will not be bringing back python2 packages.

Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
2024-07-24 11:07 noskov3 New Issue
2024-07-24 18:27 steev Assigned To => steev
2024-07-24 18:27 steev Status new => closed
2024-07-24 18:27 steev Resolution open => won't fix
2024-07-24 18:27 steev Note Added: 0019568