RE: Can't Upgrade Mozilla
On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Brent Fulgham wrote:
> Right. Purge the old debconf, then install debconf. There is a change
> in the paths used by Debconf that seems to cause it to flail uncontrollably
> when trying to upgrade.
No, I'm totally hosed:
% dpkg --force-depends --purge debconf
% apt-get install debconf
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these:
Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
debconf: Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1.94) but 2.1.3-7 is to be installed
Depends: libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 but it is not going to be
installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or
specify a solution).
% apt-get -f install
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
cpp debconf g++ gcc libc6 libc6-dbg libc6-dev libc6-pic libdb2
libdb2-util libnss-db libstdc++2.10-dev libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2
The following packages will be REMOVED:
locales
The following NEW packages will be installed:
debconf libdb2-util libnss-db libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2
9 packages upgraded, 4 newly installed, 1 to remove and 407 not
upgraded.
Need to get 10.7MB of archives. After unpacking 7154kB will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
[...]
Fetched 10.7MB in 13s (788kB/s)
E: Internal Error, Could not perform immediate configuration
RC=100
I purged debconf as suggested a couple of days ago on this list.
-Dave
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