Unresolved dependencies when installing AceStream

Question

I'm using ''Debian GNU/Linux stretch/sid''.

I'm trying to install AceStream, following these steps.

But when I added this line to /etc/apt/sources.list:

deb http://repo.acestream.org/debian/ sid main

and got the public key like this:

sudo wget -O - http://repo.acestream.org/keys/acestream.public.key | sudo apt-key add -

the attempt to apt-get install acestream-engine failed with the following result:

Following packages have unresolved dependencies:
 acestream-engine : Requires: python2.7-apsw but cannot be installed

(this is translated from my language, not the exact result)

I tried googling python2.7-apsw, but it is some kind of virtual package and I'm not sure how to deal with this

Answer 1

Submit a bug report to acestream, their acestream-engine package is broken. python2.7-apsw does not exist in debian sid. the package they should be depending upon is called python-apsw.

Alternatively (or additionally), you can use the debian equivs package to build a dummy python2.7-apsw package that has no contents but depends on python-apsw

Package: equivs
Description-en: Circumvent Debian package dependencies
 This package provides a tool to create trivial Debian packages.
 Typically these packages contain only dependency information, but they
 can also include normal installed files like other packages do.
 .
 One use for this is to create a metapackage: a package whose sole
 purpose is to declare dependencies and conflicts on other packages so
 that these will be automatically installed, upgraded, or removed.
 .
 Another use is to circumvent dependency checking: by letting dpkg
 think a particular package name and version is installed when it
 isn't, you can work around bugs in other packages' dependencies.
 (Please do still file such bugs, though.)