Re: Problems upgrading libraries for Fonts

[surak@imsa.edu]

> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to install the packages xfonts-cyrillic_3.3.2.3a-11.deb and
> xfonts-cjk_3.3.2.3a-11.deb, for which I need xfs and xbase-clients;
> 
> xbase-clients_3.3.2.3a-11.deb depends, among others, on xlib6g (>=
> 3.3.2.3a-2)
> (the rest of the dependencies were already installed in the system);
> 
> xlib6g_3.3.2.3a-11.deb depends on xfree86-common, libc6 (libc6 is ok, and
> xfree86-common... shouldn't it be installed with the basic X installation?
> it
> doesn't show with `dpkg -l' though).  But xlib6g conflicts (and replaces)
> xlib6 (<< 3.3.2.3a-8) and xlib6g-dev (<< 3.3.2.3a-2), and replaces xbase
> (<< 3.3.2.3a-2) ... a bit too much fiddling with the x-window system?
> 
> Now, this is the output of my attempt to install xlib6g:
> 
> homega:/tmp# dpkg -i xlib6g_3.3.2.3a-11.deb
[snip]

Did you try using apt or dselect first? Using dpkg by itself is sometimes a
very unfriendly way of doing things when depends get in the way.

Alan Liu
surak@imsa.edu