on Sun, May 13, 2001 at 11:09:13PM -0500, burningclown@westhost43.westhost.com (burningclown@westhost43.westhost.com) wrote: > > Hi, > > I ran what proved to be a rather large apt-get dist-upgrade last week, and > wound up with some dependency conflicts which I don't know how to get > around/rid of. The packages downloaded did not finish installing, and when > I try to run apt-get dist-upgrade NOW what I get is the following: > > Reading Package Lists... > Building Dependency Tree... > You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these. > Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: > php3-pgsql: Depends: libpgsql2.1 (>= 7.0.3-3) but it is not installed > Depends: php3 (= 3:3.0.18-12) but 3:3.0.18-0potato1 is installed > postgresql: Depends: libpgsql2.1 (>= 7.1) but it is not installed > Depends: libpgsql2.1 but it is not installed > postgresql-client: Depends: libpgsql2.1 (>= 7.1) but it is not installed > Depends: libpgsql2.1 (>= 7.1) but it is not installed > > > Unfortunately, running 'apt-get -f install' doesn't seem to fix the > problem. > > I believe another user posted this problem recently; however, I seem to > have lost any useful reply to that message, and can't seem to find it in > the list archives. Where should I begin getting around this? > > Thanks for any hints. Not sure of anything specifically addressing postgres, but I'd had a similar conflict lock with Galeon, which I'd forced installation of. I hand-edited the galeon deps in /var/lib/dpkg/status to match what was currently on my system. Note that this can get you into trouble, but in my case it worked. I'd archive my 'status' file first. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org
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