opencpn-tcdata is not installable

[sturmgewehr762]

I'm setting up a new Pi3B+. Brand new install of Stretch, followed instructions to install xenial main (have successfully done this before) but this time I'm hitting a series of errors which I've pasted below. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you, John


pi@raspberrypi:~ $ sudo apt-get install opencpn
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:
opencpn : Depends: opencpn-tcdata but it is not installable
Recommends: opencpn-doc but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: opencpn-gshhs-intermediate but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: opencpn-gshhs-high but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: opencpn-gshhs-full but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

[bdbcat]

John...


Please try this:


$sudo apt-get install opencpn opencpn-tcdata


Thanks
Dave

[sturmgewehr762]

Hi Dave,

Thanks for the reply. I did try that earlier however I just now tried it again, thinking perhaps I made a typo earlier. Here is the result:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package opencpn-tcdata is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

E: Package 'opencpn-tcdata' has no installation candidate

[conachair]

Tried the openotter image?

Everything iss in there already.

[sturmgewehr762]

I'm really hoping to install to the stretch DE rather than using open plotter. It shouldn't really be that difficult.



Is there really no other feedback for this issue? It seems like the repository is incomplete.


John

[bdbcat]

Clearly not a wide-spread problem, or we would have heard before now.



what happens if you say:


$sudo apt-get install opencpn-tcdata


Dave

[conachair]

Originally Posted by sturmgewehr762

I'm really hoping to install to the stretch DE rather than using open plotter. It shouldn't really be that difficult.

Install openplotter and update to Stretch. I did it ages ago, not difficult - google for the command, something like dist-update

pi@openplotter:~ $ cat /etc/os-release
PRETTY_NAME="Raspbian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch)"
NAME="Raspbian GNU/Linux"
VERSION_ID="9"
VERSION="9 (stretch)"
ID=raspbian
ID_LIKE=debian
HOME_URL="http://www.raspbian.org/"
SUPPORT_URL="http://www.raspbian.org/RaspbianForums"
BUG_REPORT_URL="http://www.raspbian.org/RaspbianBugs"


Repository >
pi@openplotter:~ $ cat /etc/apt/sources.list
deb Index of /raspbian stretch main contrib non-free rpi
# Uncomment line below then 'apt-get update' to enable 'apt-get source'
#deb-src Index of /raspbian stretch main contrib non-free rpi

deb Index of /bdbcat/opencpn/ubuntu xenial main

deb Index of /raspbian jessie main contrib non-free rpi

[banjoship]

Originally Posted by bdbcat

Clearly not a wide-spread problem, or we would have heard before now.



what happens if you say:


$sudo apt-get install opencpn-tcdata


Dave

I have the exact same problem, same diagnostics. In my case I am installing opencpn on a RockPro 64 SBC, running Armbian operating system. So I am watching this thread with great interest.

After failing to install from opencpn PPA (unmet dependencies including tcdata and gshhs), I ended up compiling opencpn from source. It was successful (runs and works with charts), but opencpn-tcdata and opencpn-gshhs-low were not installed. Attempts to now install them using the same commands as the original poster bring up the same diagnostics. Attempts to install them using Synaptic (after adding the opencpn PPA) bring up similar diagnostics.

I am only fooling around with the RockPro 64 for fun and education, so I will keep chipping away at it, but any suggestions welcome. (The RockPro is a developmental board, Armbian is also developmental, and I am a beginner at Linux, so its all fun)

In the longer term I will probably go with RPI4 (have one on order) plus OpenPlotter. I already have RPI3B+ running OpenPlotter, it is fine, but a bit slow)

Lee

[sturmgewehr762]

Originally Posted by bdbcat

Clearly not a wide-spread problem, or we would have heard before now.



what happens if you say:


$sudo apt-get install opencpn-tcdata


Dave

Dave,

I get the identical result as every variation I tried last night.

John


$ sudo apt-get install opencpn-tcdata
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package opencpn-tcdata is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

E: Package 'opencpn-tcdata' has no installation candidate

[sturmgewehr762]

Originally Posted by conachair

Install openplotter and update to Stretch. I did it ages ago, not difficult - google for the command, something like dist-update

pi@openplotter:~ $ cat /etc/os-release
PRETTY_NAME="Raspbian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch)"
NAME="Raspbian GNU/Linux"
VERSION_ID="9"
VERSION="9 (stretch)"
ID=raspbian
ID_LIKE=debian
HOME_URL="http://www.raspbian.org/"
SUPPORT_URL="http://www.raspbian.org/RaspbianForums"
BUG_REPORT_URL="http://www.raspbian.org/RaspbianBugs"


Repository >
pi@openplotter:~ $ cat /etc/apt/sources.list
deb Index of /raspbian stretch main contrib non-free rpi
# Uncomment line below then 'apt-get update' to enable 'apt-get source'
#deb-src Index of /raspbian stretch main contrib non-free rpi

deb Index of /bdbcat/opencpn/ubuntu xenial main

deb Index of /raspbian jessie main contrib non-free rpi

I'll probably end up going this route. It still just seems like something simple is missing from the repository. RPi is the only platform I have had this issue with. I have it running on Windows, Android and Linux already.

John

[sturmgewehr762]

Originally Posted by banjoship

In the longer term I will probably go with RPI4 (have one on order) plus OpenPlotter. I already have RPI3B+ running OpenPlotter, it is fine, but a bit slow)

Lee

My plan as well. I already have the 4gb version of the Pi 4 and am playing around with it while they work the bugs out. The setup that I plan to actually use on the boat will be the Pi4 with Open Plotter 2.0 once it is released.

John

[Hammz]

I've sent an email to the package maintainer notifying him that there's a problem with the repository.



I have the exact same issue with a Pi 3B+ and a fresh install of Raspbian. The file is missing from the repository apparently. The Packages catalog file doesn't list it, yet opencpn lists it as a dependency. That's the package manager's fault.



See Index of /opencpn/opencpn/ubuntu/pool/main/o/opencpn-tcdata



There is no Xenial .deb file for openpcn-tcdata here. And this directory has no updates since 2015.


Here's a list of the dependencies from the Packages-1 file:


Package: opencpn
Priority: extra
Section: misc
Installed-Size: 29781
Maintainer: Pavel Kalian <pavel@kalian.cz>
Architecture: i386
Version: 5.0.0-0~xenial1
Recommends: xcalib, xdg-utils, opencpn-doc, opencpn-gshhs-crude, opencpn-gshhs-intermediate, opencpn-gshhs-high, opencpn-gshhs-full
Replaces: opencpn-plugin-chartdldr, opencpn-plugin-wmm
Provides: opencpn-plugin-chartdldr, opencpn-plugin-wmm
Depends: libbz2-1.0, libc6 (>= 2.15), libcairo2 (>= 1.2.4), libcurl3 (>= 7.16.2), libexpat1 (>= 2.0.1), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.2), libgl1-mesa-glx | libgl1, libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.12.0), libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.14.0), libpango-1.0-0 (>= 1.22.0), libpangocairo-1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0), libportaudio2 (>= 19+svn20101113), libstdc++6 (>= 5.2), libtinyxml2.6.2v5, libwxbase3.0-0v5 (>= 3.0.2+dfsg), libwxgtk-webview3.0-0v5 (>= 3.0.2+dfsg), libwxgtk3.0-0v5 (>= 3.0.2+dfsg), libx11-6, zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.3.4), wx3.0-i18n, opencpn-tcdata, opencpn-gshhs-low
Conflicts: opencpn-plugin-chartdldr, opencpn-plugin-wmm
Filename: pool/main/o/opencpn/opencpn_5.0.0-0~xenial1_i386.deb
Size: 9039482
MD5sum: 846db368afb7b49ab4afecbd27cbd743
SHA1: c5fd16400b02996a2caf7d901c681a17d1ea272f
SHA256: f82097a06f78097a73211762cfbb89571bb627efa9882d5fac 47223be199786b
Description: Concise chartplotter and navigation software
Description-md5: caebb7fa922495c76208eec80177a6eb

[cagney]

Which ppa are you guys using? Maybe only the beta ppa?

Make sure you have the "production" ppa installed by running

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:opencpn/opencpn
sudo apt-get update

Thomas

[Hammz]

Originally Posted by cagney

Which ppa are you guys using? Maybe only the beta ppa?

Make sure you have the "production" ppa installed by running

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:opencpn/opencpn
sudo apt-get update

Thomas

Well, that repository isn't working for Raspian stretch. Plus add-apt-repository isn't installed by default on my copies of Raspbian anyway. (You add it by doing "apt-get install software-properties-common", but don't bother).

[cagney]

Originally Posted by Hammz

Well, that repository isn't working for Raspian stretch. Plus add-apt-repository isn't installed by default on my copies of Raspbian anyway. (You add it by doing "apt-get install software-properties-common", but don't bother).

Still don't know what repository you are using. Whatever...it seems like it does not include the tcdata package.
Why not bypass the apt-get by downloading all the packages you need manually from different repositories and then use "dpkg -i" to install them ?
Sure a bit fiddly but but way faster than waiting for a repository to get fixed!

Thomas