Re: apt-get complaining about dependencies, and other upgrade issues
Try downloading the g++ package manually (version 2.91.58 or greater) and
installing it using dpkg.
Another (brute force) solution would be dpkg -i --force-depends *,
again: I don't wish to be held responsible for anything that might go
wrong!
Ron
On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote:
> :: On Fri, 24 Mar 2000 15:20:59 +0100 (CET), Ron Rademaker <ron@wep.tudelft.nl> said:
>
>
> What did you mean by "go to the main/base and later to the main/lib"?
> If you meant subdirectories, there was none in
> /var/cache/apt/archives.
>
> Anyway, I did what you said a few times, but even though bluefish was
> upgraded and is working (well, it only crashed when I called
> weblint)... dpkg still complains about:
>
>
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libstdc++2.10-dev:
> libstdc++2.10-dev depends on g++ (>= 2.91.58); however:
> Package g++ is not configured yet.
> dpkg: error processing libstdc++2.10-dev (--install):
> dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
>
>
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> gcc_1%3a2.95.2-7_i386.deb
> g++
> g77
> gobjc
> libstdc++2.10-dev
>
>
> (?)
>
>
> Maybe upgrading to potato from the state it is now could be a good idea (?)
>
> J.
>
> > apt downloads all your deb packages in /var/cache/apt/archives, so I just
> > went there, to the main/base section and did: dpkg -i
> > --force-depend-versions,conflict * (in other words install everything and
> > don't worry about version depencies or conflicts (conflict are for perl
> > 5.004 to 5.005), it still gives errors but just ignore them. Then go to
> > the main/lib and do the same, then do a dpkg -a --configure, then a
> > apt-get upgrade, if there are still errors repeat the first steps again
> > till it works, if it doesn't allow you to go any further install any
> > packages that apt complains about manually with dpkg -i <package> (apt has
> > already downloaded it for you).
>
> > Ron
>
> --
> Jeronimo Pellegrini
> Institute of Computing - Unicamp - Brazil
> http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~jeronimo
> mailto:jeronimo@dcc.unicamp.br mailto:pellegrini@iname.com
>
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