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upgrade to frozen failed.



after a really successful upgrade of a slink machine to potato (a
server) i got excited and tried to do an upgrade on a workstation(with
pretty much everything from slink installed compared to a pretty bare
installation on the server) and it failed.

the package im hung at is gimp-manual.

if i try apt-get dist-upgrade:

Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Calculating Upgrade... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  timezones tetex-extra dvidvi timidity-patches xproc secure-su lynx
  python-misc gedit mozilla libpam0g-util jadetex g++ scwm g77 tetex-bin
  python-net slrn ddd python-curses libstdc++2.9-dev sgmlspm egcc newt0.25
  ppp-pam python-bsddb lesstifg gmp2 kbd-data rgrep gobjc man-db timidity
  pdmenu r-cran libguile4-dev 
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libpopt0 libmagick5 libncurses5 liblzo1 traceroute libpgsql2 fte-xwindow
  perl-5.004-base libwrap0 libpam-modules blas1 libopenldap1 perl-5.004
  libgtk1.2 ruptime libguile6 libglib1.2 librplay3 liburi-perl dpsclient
  libsane libpam-pwdb libpam-runtime rusers gnome-libs-data lockfile-progs
  vflib2 libpcre2 libart2 perl-5.004-suid mc-common gdk-imlib1
xpilot-server
  libi18n-langtags-perl zlib-bin itcl3.0 libmysqlclient6 tcpd
  libopenldap-runtime rdate libgd-gif1 librecode0 perl-5.004-doc tftp
finger
  sgmlspl icmpinfo rwho bootpc rdist ftp tetex-lib rwall libgmp2
console-data
  lesstif1 libcdparanoia0 ntp rwhod libtext-format-perl libasound1 fping
  libbz2 libnspr4 libaudiofile0 libgsm1 gettext-base tcl8.2 tcl8.3
  libsgmls-perl alsa-base liborbit0 tk8.2 tk8.3 rsh-client ntpdate
libnewt0
  libreadline4 pidentd blas-dev liblockfile1 
The following packages have been kept back
  gnuplot menu flying fakeroot auctex libcurses-perl wvdial groff
  libcompress-zlib-perl libtime-hires-perl synaesthesia xbill libgtk-perl
  nighthawk swish++ libhtml-parser-perl libterm-readkey-perl eperl sp
djtools
  plotutils ivtools-dev lincity-svga octave htdig pstoedit apt xevil cvs
eterm
  libgtkmm-dev libgtkmm dpkg xbuffy luxman xlockmore word2x vrweb cdrdao
wm2
  dxpc vim xjig ical libmime-base64-perl tkmixer jade xkobo libpgperl
  moonlight perl-tk phalanx fvwm wmmail perlmagick wxhelp xosview 
475 packages upgraded, 81 newly installed, 36 to remove and 57 not
upgraded.
1 packages not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/198MB of archives. After unpacking 71.2MB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
E: Internal Error, Couldn't configure a pre-depend

any way to fix that ? or should i try just upgrade (below):

if i just try an apt-get upgrade :

it says the same thing about the packages and when i say Y it goes:

Setting up gimp-manual (1.0.0-4) ...
dhelp_parse: You can add only directories under /usr/doc!

dpkg: error processing gimp-manual (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 gimp-manual
E: Sub-process returned an error code (1)


how can i get around this? i can't force it, i cant remove it no matter
what i do, is there some way i can tell dpkg to ignore it? or force remove
it? or edit a file somewhere so it doesnt know its there? help!!

nate

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