Installing Panda3D on Ubuntu 11.10 - dependency issues

[Puchatek]

Hi

I'm trying to install Panda3D on Ubuntu 11.10, but I keep on running into dependency problems that I can't resolve.
Here's the output of trying to run panda3d1.8_1.8.0*.deb

sudo dpkg -i panda3d1.8_1.8.0+cvs20120125~oneiric104_i386.deb
Selecting previously deselected package panda3d1.8:i386.
(Reading database ... 252361 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking panda3d1.8:i386 (from panda3d1.8_1.8.0+cvs20120125~oneiric104_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of panda3d1.8:i386:
panda3d1.8:i386 depends on libavcodec53 (>= 4:0.7-1) | libavcodec-extra-53 (>= 4:0.7-1); however:
Package libavcodec53:i386 is not installed.
panda3d1.8:i386 depends on libavformat53 (>= 4:0.7-1) | libavformat-extra-53 (>= 4:0.7-1); however:
panda3d1.8:i386 depends on libavutil51 (>= 4:0.7-1) | libavutil-extra-51 (>= 4:0.7-1); however:
panda3d1.8:i386 depends on libhighgui2.1; however:
panda3d1.8:i386 depends on libswscale2 (>= 4:0.7-1) | libswscale-extra-2 (>= 4:0.7-1); however:
panda3d1.8:i386 depends on libxxf86dga1; however:
panda3d1.8:i386 depends on python2.7; however:
panda3d1.8:i386 depends on python-pmw; however:
panda3d1.8:i386 depends on nvidia-cg-toolkit; however:
dpkg: error processing panda3d1.8:i386 (--install):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus ...
Processing triggers for bamfdaemon ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf.index...
Processing triggers for shared-mime-info ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
panda3d1.8:i386

It seems to me I have libavcodec53 and all the rest installed, so I don't understand what's the problem. I tried purging and reinstalling libs with apt-get install, but to no avail.
Same issue persists if I try any other available panda3d1.8_1.8.0*.deb, or 1.7.2 version.

Similar problem was described in http://www.panda3d.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=12076 where it was marked as a problem with Panda3d package, not user's PC.
Any ideas on what's really going on any how to resolve it would be greatly appreciated.

[rdb]

Hi, welcome to the forums!

Many of the packages that Panda3D depends on are not in the "main" component of the Ubuntu repository, but in the other components, such as "universe". I advise enabling these extra components in your package manager or system software sources settings (I haven't used Ubuntu in a while, so I don't know where the setting can be found nowadays), rebuilding the package index (using "sudo apt-get update"), and trying again.

I have no idea if this is indeed the issue, but it'd be my first guess.

Can you also show the output of these commands, for the record:

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lsb_release -a
dpkg --print-architecture

[Puchatek]

Hi rdb, thanks for your answer.

I already had universal repositories enabled, and all the software is up-to-date.

The output of lsb_release -a is:

LSB Version: core-2.0-amd64:core-2.0-noarch:core-3.0-amd64:core-3.0-noarch:core-3.1-amd64:core-3.1-noarch:core-3.2-amd64:core-3.2-noarch:core-4.0-amd64:core-4.0-noarch:cxx-3.0-amd64:cxx-3.0-noarch:cxx-3.1-amd64:cxx-3.1-noarch:cxx-3.2-amd64:cxx-3.2-noarch:cxx-4.0-amd64:cxx-4.0-noarch:desktop-3.1-amd64:desktop-3.1-noarch:desktop-3.2-amd64:desktop-3.2-noarch:desktop-4.0-amd64:desktop-4.0-noarch:graphics-2.0-amd64:graphics-2.0-noarch:graphics-3.0-amd64:graphics-3.0-noarch:graphics-3.1-amd64:graphics-3.1-noarch:graphics-3.2-amd64:graphics-3.2-noarch:graphics-4.0-amd64:graphics-4.0-noarch:printing-3.2-amd64:printing-3.2-noarch:printing-4.0-amd64:printing-4.0-noarch:qt4-3.1-amd64:qt4-3.1-noarch
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 11.10
Release: 11.10
Codename: oneiric

The output of dpkg --print-architecture is: amd64

The machine has Inter Core i7 processors, though from what I read about dpkg --print-architecture it's nothing strange to see 'amd64' as an output for 64 bit Intel processors.

[rdb]

You're on an amd64 system, but you're trying to install the i386 version of Panda3D. That's the problem.

[Puchatek]

So I was misunderstanding the meaning of i386 and amd64 - I thought the former refers to Intel processors, and latter to AMD's, rather than 32 bit and 64 bit architectures respectively. Nonetheless, the wrong package is not the culprit, I tried going for the panda3d1.8_1.8.0+cvs20120130~oneiric109_amd64.deb
but the output was very much the same, or:

dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of panda3d1.8:
panda3d1.8 depends on libavcodec53 (>= 4:0.7-1) | libavcodec-extra-53 (>= 4:0.7-1); however:
Package libavcodec53 is not installed.
Package libavcodec-extra-53 is not installed.
panda3d1.8 depends on libavformat53 (>= 4:0.7-1) | libavformat-extra-53 (>= 4:0.7-1); however:
Package libavformat53 is not installed.
Package libavformat-extra-53 is not installed.
panda3d1.8 depends on libavutil51 (>= 4:0.7-1) | libavutil-extra-51 (>= 4:0.7-1); however:
Package libavutil51 is not installed.
Package libavutil-extra-51 is not installed.
panda3d1.8 depends on libhighgui2.1; however:
Package libhighgui2.1 is not installed.
panda3d1.8 depends on libopenal1; however:
Package libopenal1 is not installed.
panda3d1.8 depends on libswscale2 (>= 4:0.7-1) | libswscale-extra-2 (>= 4:0.7-1); however:
Package libswscale2 is not installed.
Package libswscale-extra-2 is not installed.
dpkg: error processing panda3d1.8 (--install):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus ...
Processing triggers for bamfdaemon ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf.index...
Processing triggers for shared-mime-info ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
panda3d1.8

Really confused here

[Puchatek]

In the end a combination of purge, apt-get -f install, autoclean, autoremove, pdkg --force and similar commands did the trick. Not sure what exact combination was necessary, as I applied loads of them a few times just trying until they worked.