Missing font packages in 13.10

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Error when trying to install reader software for Estonian ID card

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So my ID software got out-of date. I wanted to update it but it failed to find any updates by itself. So now I removed the old sofware from my computer and tried to install it again and I get this in my terminal:

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:

 estonianidcard : Depends: qdigidoc but it is not going to be installed

                  Depends: qesteidutil but it is not going to be installed

E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

I am using a install script from here: https://installer.id.ee/media/install-scripts/install-esteid-ubuntu.sh
I change the OPSYS= line to raring because the source where it tries to fetch my software has raring the latest soft: https://installer.id.ee/media/ubuntu/dists/

So.. where did I go wrong here?

Output:

$ apt-cache policy estonianidcard qdigidoc qesteidutil

estonianidcard:

  Installed: (none)

  Candidate: 3.7.2.1310-ubuntu-12-10

  Version table:

     3.7.2.1310-ubuntu-12-10 0

        500 https://installer.id.ee/media/ubuntu/ quantal/main i386 Packages

qdigidoc:

  Installed: (none)

  Candidate: 3.7.2.1198-ubuntu-12-10

  Version table:

     3.7.2.1198-ubuntu-13-04 0

        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

     3.7.2.1198-ubuntu-12-10 0

        500 https://installer.id.ee/media/ubuntu/ quantal/main i386 Packages

     0.4.1-0ubuntu1 0

        500 http://ee.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ saucy/universe i386 Packages

qesteidutil:

  Installed: (none)

  Candidate: 3.7.2.1079-ubuntu-12-10

  Version table:

     3.7.2.1079-ubuntu-12-10 0

        500 https://installer.id.ee/media/ubuntu/ quantal/main i386 Packages

     0.3.1-0ubuntu2 0

        500 http://ee.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ saucy/universe i386 Packages

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answered 1 Year ago anoalk · Accepted Answer

Missing font packages in 13.10

Liberation still exists. As all the other font packages do, they just got renamed to be less format specific. The Liberation font from ttf-liberation package can now be found in fonts-liberation. With 13.10/saucy all the (transitional) ttf-* packages were finally dropped, but not the fonts themselves.

Workaround for broken font dependency

Only the qesteidutil package seems to contain the outdated dependency. You could download the package and update the control file within the debian directory of the package.

Also please check if /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ria-repository.list really contains the release name you want to download packages for. If not, edit the file and run sudo apt-get update. If you still encounter issues, then take a look at How do I resolve unmet dependencies after adding a PPA?

Suggestion: build your own packages

Since sources are available, you could rebuild one or all of the packages. The packages however are incompatible to the Debian guidelines as they all seem to be missing copyright information and may be more (see the packaging guide for information on how to get started and how Debian compliant packages should look like).

A closer look at the setup script

The script is used to write distribution specific repository files to /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ria-repository.list, which deviates from the default naming convention for these files and implies that the script should be run after each release upgrade, unless you know what to fix. It will leave you without installable packages for saucy, as they do not exist currently. The script also fetches and installs the repository key from the key server.

If you build your own signed packages and want to distribute them, you would need to modify these parts of the script. The best solution would be a Ubuntu PPA, given that the source code is really Open Source and free to distribute (should be, as I can see a lot of files containing the LGPL license text when browsing for example https://svn.eesti.ee/projektid/idkaart_public/branches/3.7.2/).

Summary

I know this looks like I am just complaining or talking you into packaging, but I am confident that these little issues can be sorted out.