[solved]following packages have been kept back: telldus-core

[jaqen]

I am running my tellstick on my ubuntu LTS server (2.6.24-24-server)

suddenly it stopped working, claiming no devices were configured:

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# tdtool --off "musik"
Device 'musik', not found!

This device has been working fine so far

when updating packages on the server i get this:

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The following packages have been kept back:
  telldus-core
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.

some googling tells me i can get more info by trying to install the specific package:

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 # apt-get install telldus-core
[...]
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  telldus-core: Depends: libftdi1 (>= 0.17) but it is not installable
E: Broken packages

so a package needed is suddenly unavailable!

does anyone know how to get/compile/force this package, so the tellstick may work again?

[jaqen]

ah found it myself:

on https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/maverick/i ... di1/0.17-1 i got the link for the package file

then i just did

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# cd /tmp
/tmp# wget http://launchpadlibrarian.net/38021888/libftdi1_0.17-1_i386.deb
/tmp# dpkg -i libftdi1_0.17-1_i386.deb

after that i ran "apt-get dist-upgrade" and it installed a newer version of telldus-core without a hitch.

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