Re: dist-upgrade

[Joe Frost <joe-list@the-frosts.org>]

On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 06:38:40PM +0100, Dave Thorn wrote:
> So, I was running Sarge quite happily, updating upgrading now and then,
> when I decided to do a dist-upgrade (but staying within sarge).  This
> broke partway through, leaving me in a state where I can't install
> anything:
> 
> You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these.
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>   libxft-dev: Depends: libxft2 (= 2.1.2-5) but 2.1.2-6 is installed
> E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.
> 
> Is there any way to fix this, anything I can do?  If not, if I wait long
> enough will it get fixed at some point when I
> 
> apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade ?
> 
> tvm,
> 
> -- 
> dave thorn

I ran into the same problem on a couple of machines.  Since I lack the
patience to see if these will be resolved I ran 

# dpkg -r --force-all libxft2

I think. 

Joe