I am using the 'stable' debian packages, as referred to at http://lcg-heppkg.web.cern.ch/lcg-heppkg/debian/install.html The geant4 package depends on libgean4-dev, which in turn depends on clhep2-dev (version >= 2.0.4.7), but the latest version of clhep2-dev available in the repository is version 2.0.4.6-1.1 . Steps to reproduce on Kubuntu 10.10 'Maverick': Add the following lines to /etc/apt/sources.list: deb http://lcg-heppkg.web.cern.ch/lcg-heppkg/debian stable hep deb-src http://lcg-heppkg.web.cern.ch/lcg-heppkg/debian stable hep Enter the following commands as root: apt-get update apt-get install geant4 You will get the following output: 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: geant4 : Depends: libgeant4-dev but it is not going to be installed Depends: libgeant4-plists-dev but it is not going to be installed Depends: libg4opengl-dev but it is not going to be installed Depends: geant4-examples but it is not going to be installed E: Broken packages A little investigation determines that the unfulfilled dependencies all trace back to the old versions of clhep2 or clhep2-dev.
Thanks for reporting this. I suggest you direct report the problem directly to the DEBIAN/lcg-heppkg support (which I believe is in the person of Kevin McCarty <kmccarty@debian.org>) , as we do not have any practical role in the DEBIAN packaging.
Yes, I suspected as much. Thank you for telling me who to refer it to, I shall forward this as required.