Re: Testing: xfree86 calamity
Martin WHEELER wrote:
>
> Can anyone help me out on this one?
>
> Upgrading from 2.2r2 using testing, apt-get barfed horribly over moving
> from xfree86 3 to 4.
>
> Current situation is the usual circular unmet dependencies circus:
>
> can't install xlibs 4 because xpm4g 3.6 is to be installed
> can't install libxaw7 because xlibs isn't yet installed ...
>
> There appears to be no way out of this by hand-tweaking, that I can find
> -- can't remove xpm4g because everything under X depends on it; can't
> install new xlibs because it conflicts with xpm4g -- etc. etc.
>
> apt-get wants to REMOVE 703 Mb (just about everything that runs under X)
> -- there *has* to be a better way.
>
> Hasn't there?
>
> Any help really appreciated.
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Looking at the xlibs here(X4,sid) it says that it provides xpm4g,so I
would guess
that a dpkg --force-remove-reinstreq xpm4g will help here.Anyway if you
got here
only dpkg --force-help will get you out of this.I had to sometimes force
install
a package from /var/cache/apt/archives then run dpkg-configure -a ,then
apt-get -f install .Usually you need a combination of the above in no
real order.
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