Thread: Upstart-job package missing?..
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totaltrash is offline totaltrash
2010-04-26 , 18:58
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#22
Originally Posted by jake2kone View Post
I had the same problem a few minutes ago.
I wasn't able to install the extra protocols for Conversations.

I just deactivated the Extras-Devel repository and tried again to install it. Then it works fine.

Don't search for the upstart job. You won't find it.

With deactivating the Extras-Devel, the App-Installer is showing "older versions" of software, so you can install it.
I am fairly certain that the reason this worked is because there are mutliple versions of that app in the repository, one in devel [the new broken dependency version] and one in extras [the older working version]. This is not so for all applications. The telepathy-theonering (Google Voice) app has had old versions removed from the repository, all versions up to 0.8.11-0 I think. Since that version still requires the upstart-job package, and is not available in any repository except extras-devel removing that cataloge shouldn't do anything except take it off of the possible installation list.

I am trying to build an old version of theonering but I'm not too savvy when it comes to this stuff. I want to stress that removing the repo will only work if there is a working version in the extras repo. Still looking for a fix if anyone has ideas.