Re: apt got messed up

["Martin Bialasinski" <martin@internet-treff.uni-koeln.de>]

Bruce Stephens <bruce+debian@cenderis.demon.co.uk> wrote:

Hi,

> Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
>   libmime1: Conflicts: kdesupport0g (< 4:1.1.2-final-0) but it is not installable
> E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages.
 
> But libmime1 is installed, and there's nothing trying to install
> kdesupport0g that I can see.  "apt-get check" reports nothing wrong.
> (I'm using unstable.)

this also drove me nuts, but I found the reason.

Seems like the debian mirrors I used got somehow inconsistent when
master was down. 

I removed all of them from my sources.list, and added ftp.debian.org,
and all was well again.

Ciao,
        Martin