Re: apt problems and why?
I had something similar happen when I did woody->sid dist-upgrade.
Anyway, make sure that the 2 other 'esound' packages are selected for
installation also. This solved (one of) my problem(s) - hope it works
for you :)
R.
On Sat, Mar 17, 2001 at 03:55:39AM +0200, Daniel Mashao wrote:
> I get the following error message
>
>
> home:/home/daniel# apt-get -f install
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> Correcting dependencies... failed.
> Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
> libesd0: Depends: esound-common but it is not installed
> E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused
> by held packages.
> E: Unable to correct dependencies
>
> I cannot solve this problem and also I cannot install any package. Any
> help? This has to be looked at as one of Debian's biggest weakness. We
> boast about Debian easy upgradability but it does sometimes show Msoft
> weaknesses.
>
> I have tried to install esound-common but it cannot because of something
> else, untlimately the system is un-upgradable.
> Thanks,
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