Re: Apt dependency problem

[Hamma Scott <scott_hamma@yahoo.com>]

--- Erik van der Meulen <e.van.der.meulen@avondel.nl>
wrote:
> After the process finished, I figured to redo:
> 
>   apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade
> 
> and be okay again. Not! It results in:
> 
>   libsdl1.2debian: Depends: libsdl1.2debian-all (=
> 1.2.2-3.2) but it is
>   not going to be installed or
>   libsdl1.2debian-oss (= 1.2.2-3.2) but it is not
> going to be installed or
>   libsdl1.2debian-esd (= 1.2.2-3.2) but it is not
> going to be installed or
>   libsdl1.2debian-arts (= 1.2.2-3.2) but it is not
> going to be installed
 
> Does anybody have a clue on how to fix this? Very
> much appreciated!
Have you tried apt-get dist-upgrade -d (download
only)?
If this works you can use dpkg -i to install the
necessary packages.
If that doesn't work there is apt-get dist-upgrade -f
(force upgrade without checking for dependencies). I
would suggest to leave this as a very last resort.

Scott

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