apt-get confused, how to repair?
Hello all,
I seem to have a confused apt-get:
vendredi:~# apt-get check
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these.
Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
debconf: Depends: fileutils (>= 4.0-5) but it is not installed
debhelper: Depends: fileutils (>= 4.0-2.1) but it is not installed
kernel-package: Depends: fileutils (>= 3.16-4) but it is not installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.
vendredi:~#
vendredi:~# apt-get install fileutils
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 86 not upgraded.
1 packages not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 533kB of archives. After unpacking 1024B will be used.
Get:1 ftp://linux.tellabs.fi potato/main fileutils 4.0l-3 [533kB]
Fetched 533kB in 1s (516kB/s)
(Reading database ... 52491 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace fileutils 4.0l-2 (using
.../fileutils_4.0l-3_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement fileutils ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/fileutils_4.0l-3_i386.deb
(--unpack):
trying to overwrite `/bin/chgrp', which is also in package
perl-5.005-base
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/fileutils_4.0l-3_i386.deb
E: Sub-process returned an error code (1)
-- 1 packages not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 533kB of archives. After unpacking 1024B will be used.
Get:1 ftp://linux.tellabs.fi potato/main fileutils 4.0l-3 [533kB]
Fetched 533kB in 1s (516kB/s)
(Reading database ... 52491 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace fileutils 4.0l-2 (using
.../fileutils_4.0l-3_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement fileutils ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/fileutils_4.0l-3_i386.deb
(--unpack):
trying to overwrite `/bin/chgrp', which is also in package
perl-5.005-base
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/fileutils_4.0l-3_i386.deb
E: Sub-process returned an error code (1)
vendredi:~#
It seems to me that /bin/chgrp is not in perl-5.005-base, apt-get just
thinks so. I have tried apt-get clean and autoclean, -f like apt-get
instructs, and running dselect but nothing helps.
How should I proceed to get this system fixed? Is there a way to
recreate the database apt-get uses to store the installation state of
the system?
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