Etch apt-get "dependency trap"
I'm in serious trouble here. I was upgrading from xorg 6.9 to 7 but my
problem is the usual one. Everything was fine until wajig reported that
the /usr/X11R6/bin directory wasn't empty. It suggested moving the files
somewhere else and then restarting the install. I did this and then all
hell broke loose. Redoing wajig install xserver-xorg aborted again with
dependency problems and suggested I run apt-get -f install, which I did.
That only made things worse. I am now completely stuck. installing,
reinstalling, holding, removing or any other operation using, apt-get,
aptitude, wajig all abort. Running apt-get check gives this:
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Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these.
The following packages have unmet dependencies.
gdm: Depends: xbase-clients but it is not installed
gsfonts-x11: Depends: xutils (>= 4.1.0-12) but it is not installed
kdelibs: Depends: kdelibs4c2a (>= 4:3.5.5a.dfsg.1-1) but 4:3.5.2-2+b1 is
installed
kdelibs4-dev: Depends: kdelibs4c2a (= 4:3.5.5a.dfsg.1-1) but 4:3.5.2-2+b1
is installed
kdelibs4c2a: Depends: xbase-clients but it is not installed
libgksu1.2-0: Depends: xbase-clients but it is not installed
libgksuui1.0-1: Depends: xbase-clients but it is not installed
libxklavier10: Depends: xbase-clients but it is not installed
msttcorefonts: Depends: xutils (>= 4.0.2) but it is not installed
ttf-arphic-gbsn00lp: Depends: xutils (>= 4.0.2) but it is not installed
x-ttcidfont-conf: Depends: xutils but it is not installed
xawtv: Depends: xutils but it is not installed
xfonts-100dpi: Depends: xutils but it is not installed
xfonts-100dpi-transcoded: Depends: xutils but it is not installed
xfonts-75dpi: Depends: xutils but it is not installed
xfonts-75dpi-transcoded: Depends: xutils but it is not installed
xfonts-base: Depends: xutils but it is not installed
xfonts-base-transcoded: Depends: xutils but it is not installed
xfonts-intl-phonetic: Depends: xutils (>= 4.0.3) but it is not installed
xfonts-scalable: Depends: xutils but it is not installed
xfonts-tipa: Depends: xbase-clients (>= 3.3.3.1-5) but it is not installed
xkbsel: Depends: xbase-clients but it is not installed
xprint-common: Depends: xbase-clients but it is not installed
xprt-xprintorg: Depends: xprint but it is not installed
xserver-xorg: Depends: xbase-clients but it is not installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.
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Running apt-get -f install gives this:
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Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Correcting dependencies...Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
kdelibs4c2a xbase-clients xfonts-encodings xfonts-utils xprint xutils
xutils-dev
Suggested packages:
mesa-utils pdksh
Recommended packages:
xprint-utils
The following packages will be REMOVED
kdelibs-bin
The following NEW packages will be installed
xbase-clients xfonts-encodings xfonts-utils xprint xutils xutils-dev
The following packages will be upgraded:
kdelibs4c2a
1 upgraded, 6 newly installed, 1 to remove and 629 not upgraded.
45 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/13.5MB of archives.
After unpacking 10.5MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
Reading package fields... Done
Reading package status... Done
Retrieving bug reports... Done
Reading changelogs... Done
(Reading database ... 245734 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking xbase-clients (from .../xbase-clients_1%3a7.1.ds-3_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error
processing /var/cache/apt/archives/xbase-clients_1%3a7.1.ds-3_i386.deb
(--unpack):
trying to overwrite `/usr/bin/xgamma', which is also in package unicon
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/xbase-clients_1%3a7.1.ds-3_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
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Any ideas would be extremely helpful
Cheers,
Jonathan
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