Upgrading to Woody
About a week ago I did a "apt-get -u dist-upgrade" in order to move from
potato to woody. When some of the packages were installing I got an
error. I figured some of the packages were just broken so I gave it a few
days. Today I went back and typed:
apt-get clean
apt-get update
apt-get -f install
at which point it gave me this error:
Reading Package Lists...
Building Dependency Tree...
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
lbxproxy libdps-dev libdps1 proxymngr xbase-clients xfwp xlibmesa-dev
xlibosmesa-dev xlibosmesa3 xlibs xspecs
The following packages will be REMOVED:
xproxy
The following NEW packages will be installed:
lbxproxy libdps-dev libdps1 proxymngr xfwp xlibmesa-dev xlibosmesa-dev
xlibosmesa3 xlibs xspecs
1 packages upgraded, 10 newly installed, 1 to remove and 159 not upgraded.
35 packages not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/7960kB of archives. After unpacking 14.7MB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
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Configuring packages ...
(Reading database ... 42669 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace xbase-clients 3.3.6-11potato15 (using
.../xbase-clients_4.0.2-1_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement xbase-clients ...
dpkg: error processing
/var/cache/apt/archives/xbase-clients_4.0.2-1_i386.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite `/usr/X11R6/bin/xf86config', which is also in package
xserver-common
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
dpkg: considering removing xbase-clients in favour of xlibs ...
dpkg: no, cannot remove xbase-clients (--auto-deconfigure will help):
xfonts-scalable depends on xbase-clients (>= 3.3.3.1-5)
xbase-clients is to be removed.
dpkg: regarding .../xlibs_4.0.2-1_i386.deb containing xlibs:
xlibs conflicts with xbase-clients (<< 4.0)
xbase-clients (version 3.3.6-11potato15) is installed.
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/xlibs_4.0.2-1_i386.deb
(--unpack):
conflicting packages - not installing xlibs
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/xbase-clients_4.0.2-1_i386.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/xlibs_4.0.2-1_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Can anybody tell me what's going on here? Thanks!
Ben Pharr
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