Fixing unmet dependencies (Was: Re: General Update Hints Potato->Woody)

[Holger Rauch <Holger.Rauch@heitec.de>]

Hi!

Finally took the time to *try* to upgrade from Potato to Woody.

On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, Thomas R. Shemanske wrote:

> [...] 
> Feel free to post your intermediate results.

Ok, here they are. I did the following:

1. Changed /etc/apt/sources.list so that it contains the following
entries:

deb http://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/Linux/debian/ testing main non-free
contrib
deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US testing/non-US main contrib
non-free

2. Did a "dselect update" (so that the available file get updated as
well). This doesn't seem to be the case when using "apt-get update".

3. Did "apt-get install apt apt-utils dpkg debconf perl". This worked
without any major problems, except that I got the following messages:

perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
        LANGUAGE = (unset),
        LC_ALL = (unset),
        LC_MESSAGES = "C",
        LC_CTYPE = "de_DE.ISO8859-15",
        LC_COLLATE = "de_DE.ISO8859-15",
        LANG = "de_DE"
    are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").

4. I then did "apt-get -s -u dist-upgrade | less" and examined the
situation. Nothing looked suspicious to me. For some time, everthing went
well, but then I reached a point where dependencies were broken and I
don't know how to fix that. I tried "apt-get -f install" (without any
packages mentioned) after I got the following:

  kivio: Depends: kdelibs3 (>= 4:2.2.2-1) but 4:2.1.2-0.potato1 is
installed
  koffice-libs: Depends: kdelibs3 (>= 4:2.2.2-1) but 4:2.1.2-0.potato1 is
installed
  libkonq3: Depends: kdelibs3 (>= 4:2.2.2-1) but 4:2.1.2-0.potato1 is
installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.

Running "apt-get -f install" again yielded:

Unpacking replacement kdelibs3 ...
dpkg: error processing
/var/cache/apt/archives/kdelibs3_4%3a2.2.2-13_i386.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/kde2/kio_help.so', which is also in package
kdebase-libs
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/kdelibs3-bin_4%3a2.2.2-13_i386.deb
 /var/cache/apt/archives/kdelibs3_4%3a2.2.2-13_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Any good hints on how I can continue? Any help will be greatly
appreciated.
 
> Luck!

Thanks, but unfortunately I seem to be out of luck.

Greetings,

	Holger




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