Re: Circular dependency of debianutils and coreutils

[Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es>]

jls wrote:
> I have installed a basic Hurd system and wanted to fetch files via net using
> apt. An error popped up wich I boiled down to an unmet dependency
>
> apt-get upgrade debianutils
> debianutils: PreDepends coreutils (>=4.5.8-1) but 4.5.3-1 is installed.
>
>
> trying
>
> apt-get upgrade coreutils
> resulted in the same message:
> debianutils: PreDepends coreutils (>=4.5.8-1) but 4.5.3-1 is installed.
>
>
> The alternative apt offers is to remove debianutils and gzip which I better
> did not try. I could not find the approprate coreutils package, to try
> installing it via dpkg.
>
> Any suggestion what to do?

Wait for coreutils (which is now an essential package) to be available.