Re: apt-get upgrade, bad news
Try dpkg -i dhelp*.deb. It may require a few other things first. Looks
like doc-linux-html needs the newer version of dhelp.
Alternatively:
$ dpkg --remove dhelp
$ apt-get dist-upgrade
$ apt-get install dhelp
If you're upgrading distribution level, you should use "dist-upgrade"
rather than "upgrade" since it's supposed to be more intelligent about
handling dependencies.
On Wed, Apr 12, 2000 at 08:54:08PM -0500, w trillich wrote:
> you're in a maze of twisted little twisted passages, all twisted.
>
> this is so cool--i can't purge doc-linux-html. can't install.
> can't do nothin'.
>
> 0 packages upgraded,
> 0 newly installed,
> 0 to remove and
> 110 not upgraded. (aka 'held back' according to apt-get)
>
> why the hell doc-linux-html should be a lynchpin module i'll never
> know... that's where it dies, and i can't get past it:
>
> (i've edited a bit for readability: #### is the root prompt followed
> by various futile comands, with newlines were inserted above each for
> visual spacing...)
>
>
>
> #### apt-get upgrade
> <<<
> yada yada, most seems to go smoothly, but i do get tons-o-warnings
> and errors including multiples of each of these:
> ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libMesaGLw.so (No such file or
> directory), skipping
> ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libMesaGLwM.so (No such file or
> directory), skipping
> dhelp_parse: You can add only directories under /usr/doc!
> warning: ignoring unknown format `postscript' at
> /usr/sbin/install-docs line 627, <IN> chunk 20.
> a few thousand lines later, i get...
> >>>
>
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> doc-linux-html
>
>
> #### dpkg --pending --configure
> Setting up doc-linux-html (2000.03-1) ...
> dhelp_parse: You can add only directories under /usr/doc!
>
> dpkg: error processing doc-linux-html (--configure):
> subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> doc-linux-html
>
>
> #### dpkg -i doc-linux-html
> dpkg: error processing doc-linux-html (--install):
> cannot access archive: No such file or directory
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> doc-linux-html
>
>
> #### dpkg --purge doc-linux-html
> (Reading database ... 32163 files and directories currently installed.)
> Removing doc-linux-html ...
> dhelp_parse: You can add only directories under /usr/doc!
>
> dpkg: error processing doc-linux-html (--purge):
> subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
> dhelp_parse: You can add only directories under /usr/doc!
>
> dpkg: error while cleaning up:
> subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> doc-linux-html
>
>
> #### dpkg --purge doc-linux-html
> (Reading database ... 32163 files and directories currently installed.)
> Removing doc-linux-html ...
> dhelp_parse: You can add only directories under /usr/doc!
>
> dpkg: error processing doc-linux-html (--purge):
> subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
> dhelp_parse: You can add only directories under /usr/doc!
>
> dpkg: error while cleaning up:
> subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> doc-linux-html
>
>
> #### dpkg -i doc-linux-html
> dpkg: error processing doc-linux-html (--install):
> cannot access archive: No such file or directory
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> doc-linux-html
>
>
> #### apt-get install doc-linux-html
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> Sorry, doc-linux-html is already the newest version
> 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 110 not upgraded.
> 1 packages not fully installed or removed.
> Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
> Setting up doc-linux-html (2000.03-1) ...
> dhelp_parse: You can add only directories under /usr/doc!
>
> dpkg: error processing doc-linux-html (--configure):
> subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> doc-linux-html
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>
>
>
> ===
>
>
> seems like all those repetetive messages about not finding
> "libMesaGLw*.so" warrant a bit of looking-into. so i try
>
> #### dpkg -S libMesaGLw
> dpkg: *libMesaGLw* not found.
>
> imagine my relief at learning that there actually IS no libMesaGLw
> for the upgrade routine to not find.
>
> i am not going insane. i am THERE. i'm looking for a return ticket.
> any travel agents out there? barring that, how 'bout a rope--either
> with a lifesaver or noose on the end of it?
>
>
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