dpkg/apt/equivs problem
I have a problem with apt. It could come from the fact that apt-get
update now gives me this error:
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root@i203:~/install# apt-get -f update
Get file://amnt slink/contrib Packages
Get file://amnt slink/main Packages
Get file://amnt slink/non-US Packages
Error file://amnt slink/non-US Packages
Unable to stat //amnt/debian/dists/slink/non-US/binary-i386/Packages.gz No such file or directory
Get file://amnt slink/non-free Packages
ERROR file://amnt/debian/dists/slink/non-US/binary-i386/Packages.gz
Unable to stat //amnt/debian/dists/slink/non-US/binary-i386/Packages.gz No such file or directory
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and it's true:
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root@i203:~/install# ls //amnt/debian/dists/slink/non-US/binary-i386/
ls: //amnt/debian/dists/slink/non-US/binary-i386/: No such file or directory
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On the other hand, this could just be a symptom of the real
problem. Here's what I'm trying to do: I want to install an licq
package from the licq homepage, since it's much more recent than the
standard debian version. When doing 'dpkg -i licq-blabla.deb' it says
that it needs qt-1.41. But there is no such package !(?). So I
installed qt 1.42 from potato, and then installed licq with
--force-depends.
It installs and runs fine, but apt-get has a problem with this. When
trying to install further packages with it, it says:
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Checking system integrity...dependency error
You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these.
Sorry, but the following packages are broken - this means they have unmet
dependencies:
licq: Depends:qt-1.41
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But dpkg doesn't complain, it works just fine to install new packages
with that.
So I tried another solution: the equiv package, which is supposed to
fool the system into beleiving that packages are installed when
they're not. I followed the instructions in that package: edited an
/etc/equivs.conf file with 'qt-1.41', and built equivs. But it doesn't
help me. dpkg -l 'qt*' gives:
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un qt-1.41 <none> (no description available)
un qt-dev <none> (no description available)
ii qt-doc 1.40-1.1 Comprehensive docs (html), examples, and tut
un qt0-dev <none> (no description available)
un qt0-doc <none> (no description available)
un qt1 <none> (no description available)
un qt1-snapshot <none> (no description available)
ii qt1g 1.42-1 Shared Library used by applications linked w
ii qt1g-dev 1.42-1 Environment for QT GUI development.
pn qtscape <none> (no description available)
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Note that i get the apt error mentioned in the beginning even if I
uninstall licq and equivs. I would be REALLY grateful for any
help/suggestions.
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-~* Daniel Elenius *~-
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