Re: [Cannot install 2.5.7 in noble]

>>> "JBvG" == Jakob Bohm via Gnupg-users <[email protected]> writes:


Dear Mr. Bohm
> Dear Mr. Brauer



> From my experience using apt/dpkg, I see too likely possibilities:

> A: the Gnupg repository for noble does not include a gnupg package
> new enough to satisfy the the "Depends" line in the gnupg2 package
> in that same repository, if so that would be a problem for the
> g10code people that manage repos.gnupg.org .

> B: Some subtle bug/misfeature in apt itself causes it to try to
> install a gnupg package from the Ubuntu repository instead of the
> new one from the Gnupg repository.  If so, you need to explicitly
> request the correct gnupg package with a command such as:

Thanks for you detailed answer.


I tried out sudo apt-get install gnupg=2.5.17-1

And obtained
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 gnupg : Depends: dirmngr (>= 2.5.17-1)
         Depends: gpg (>= 2.5.17-1)
         Depends: gpg-agent (>= 2.5.17-1)
         Depends: gpgsm (>= 2.5.17-1)
         Depends: scdaemon (< 2.5.17-1.1~)
         Depends: scdaemon (>= 2.5.17-1)
         Breaks: dirmngr (< 2.5.17-1)
         Recommends: gnupg-utils (>= 2.5.17-1)
         Recommends: gpg-wks-client (>= 2.5.17-1) but 2.4.4-2ubuntu17.4 is to be installed
         Recommends: gpgv (>= 2.5.17-1)
         Breaks: dirmngr:i386 (< 2.5.17-1)
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
> $
not sure how to proceed.

Since as you said this is part of the «official» release, recommended by
Werner Koch, I think I found a problem work to be addressed.
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