Re: apt got messed up
Paul Wright <paul@cvanet.com> writes:
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> Try "apt-get --fix-broken dist-upgrade" I'm assuming that you are using
> woody. I went several months without an upgrade, and ran into similar
> problems as you are expiriencing. I've come to the conclusion that it may
> be best to use dist-upgrade whenever upgrading a machine running testing,
> but I may be wrong.
I get
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.)
> If my above suggestion does not work try:
>
> "apt-get --fix-missing install dpkg apt"
dpkg and apt are fine.
These are all reasonable suggestions of things to try, but I think
something, somewhere, is screwed. I just don't know how to track it
down. For example, today "apt-get upgrade" reports this, which is
just nonsensical:
# apt-get upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
43 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
a2ps: Depends: psutils but 1.17-12 is to be installed
aalib1: Depends: libgpmg1 (>= 1.14-16) but 1.19.3-6 is to be installed
anacron: Depends: debianutils (>= 1.7) but 1.15 is to be installed
Depends: sysklogd but 1.4.1-2 is to be installed or
system-log-daemon
aptitude: Depends: libapt-pkg-libc6.2-3-2-3.1
at: Depends: mail-transport-agent
autoconf: Depends: perl but 5.6.1-3 is to be installed
Depends: autoconf2.13 (>= 2.13-34) but 2.13-35 is to be installed
Conflicts: autoconf2.13 (< 2.13-29) but 2.13-35 is to be installed
autoconf2.13: Conflicts: autoconf (< 2.50) but 2.50-8 is to be installed
automake: Depends: autoconf but 2.50-8 is to be installed
libmime1: Conflicts: kdesupport0g (< 4:1.1.2-final-0) but it is not installable
opera: Depends: xlib6g (>= 3.3.6-4) but 4.0.3-4 is to be installed
pilot-link-tcl: Depends: libxpm4
Depends: zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.3) but 1:1.1.3-15 is to be installed
E: Internal Error, InstallPackages was called with broken packages!
Anybody got any hints?
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