Unable to install libmime-tools-perl because of Broken packages

Asked by Jussi Saarinen

So, I can't install libmime-tools-perl (which one dependecy of depencies for xmltv). Which package is broken here?

jms% sudo apt-get install libmime-tools-perl
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.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  libmime-tools-perl: Depends: libfile-temp-perl (>= 0.18)
E: Broken packages

jms% sudo apt-get install libfile-temp-perl
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Note, selecting perl-modules instead of libfile-temp-perl
perl-modules is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

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Jussi Saarinen (jms) said :
#1

Oh yes, this is happening in intrepid:

Linux jms.gotdns.org 2.6.27-7-generic #1 SMP Fri Oct 10 03:55:24 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

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Jussi Saarinen (jms) said :
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I solved this issue by installing libmime-tools-perl manually:

sudo dpkg -i --ignore-depends=libfile-temp-perl libmime-tools-perl_5.426-1ubuntu3_all.deb