apt or broken package problem
I regularly use apt to update or install new packages to my testing
system - since I have a dial-up connection, I avoid days-long
"dist-upgrade"s, and just "update" then "install" package by package
according to need.
In the last few days, apt has been reporting "E: Fatal, conflicts..."
errors, and I can't determine what is causing this. For example, if I
try to install "dia" I get a total of 69 "E: Fatal, conflicts..."
errors, mostly with packages which have no clear dependency relationship
with "dia" (see below), so I'm not sure where the problem lies.
I then tried "-s dist-upgrade" which returns the following:
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Calculating Upgrade... Failed
Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
libguile6: Conflicts: guile-lib but it is not installable
Conflicts: scwm (<= 0.8a-8) but it is not installable
E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages.
I don't have scwm installed, and I tried "-s install libguile6", but I
get:
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Sorry, libguile6 is already the newest version.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 327 not
upgraded.
dpkg -l libguile6 shows:
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii libguile6 1.3.4-2 `libguile.so.6' shared libraries for Guile1.
I have tried "dpkg --audit" which reports no partially installed
packages, and I don't believe there are any held packages.
I'm stuck here, don't know what's causing the problem or how to solve
it. I will be grateful for any help.
Thanks,
Tomasz
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output of "apt-get -s install dia", in case it's helpful
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
dia-common
The following NEW packages will be installed:
dia dia-common
0 packages upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 327 not upgraded.
Inst dia-common (0.88.1-3 Debian:testing) [imlib1 on imlib-nonfree1] [libpam0g on libpam0] [libpam0g on libpam] [menu on pdmenu] [ibritish on ispell] [libmagick5 on libmagick-lzw] [tcl8.3-dev on tcl] [tcl8.3-dev on tcl-dev] [docbook-to-man on docbook-to-man-ans] [libpam-modules on libpam-motd] [libpam-modules on libpam-mkhomedir] [libpam-modules on suidmanager] [groff on jgroff] [doc-base on dhelp] [libguile6 on guile-lib] [libguile6 on scwm] [vnc-common on dpkg] [vnc-common on vnc] [xbase-clients on xbase] [xbase-clients on xserver-common] [fileutils on libc6] [fileutils on color-ls] [libpam-runtime on libpam0g-util] [gconf on libgconf10] [bsdgames on bsdgames-nonfree] [libhtml-parser-perl on libwww-perl] [xutils on rstartd] [gimp-data-extras on gimp-data] [perl-base on perl-5.004-base] [perl-base on perl-5.005-base] [groff-base on groff] [bash on libreadline4] [vm on semi] [vm on semi1.12] [gdk-imlib1 on gdk-imlib-nonfree1] [gdk-imlib1 on libgdk-imlib1] [login on pam-apps] [gcc-3.0 on libc5-dev] [par
ed on fsresize] [tetex-bin on kpathsea] [tetex-bin on ps2pk] [libttf2 on freetype] [python-base on mailman] [libkpathsea3 on tetex-lib] [dpkg on libc6] [dpkg on libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2] [xfonts-100dpi on xbase-clients] [svgalibg1 on svgalib-dummyg1] [svgalibg1 on svgalib-dummy1]
Inst dia (0.88.1-3 Debian:testing) [imlib1 on imlib-nonfree1] [libpam0g on libpam0] [libpam0g on libpam] [menu on pdmenu] [ibritish on ispell] [libmagick5 on libmagick-lzw] [tcl8.3-dev on tcl] [tcl8.3-dev on tcl-dev] [docbook-to-man on docbook-to-man-ans] [libpam-modules on libpam-motd] [libpam-modules on libpam-mkhomedir] [libpam-modules on suidmanager] [groff on jgroff] [doc-base on dhelp] [libguile6 on guile-lib] [libguile6 on scwm] [vnc-common on dpkg] [vnc-common on vnc] [xbase-clients on xbase] [xbase-clients on xserver-common] [fileutils on libc6] [fileutils on color-ls] [libpam-runtime on libpam0g-util] [gconf on libgconf10] [bsdgames on bsdgames-nonfree] [libhtml-parser-perl on libwww-perl] [xutils on rstartd] [gimp-data-extras on gimp-data] [perl-base on perl-5.004-base] [perl-base on perl-5.005-base] [groff-base on groff] [bash on libreadline4] [vm on semi] [vm on semi1.12] [gdk-imlib1 on gdk-imlib-nonfree1] [gdk-imlib1 on libgdk-imlib1] [login on pam-apps] [gcc-3.0 on libc5-dev] [parted on fsresize] [tetex-bin on kpathsea] [tetex-bin on ps2pk] [libttf2 on freetype] [python-base on mailman] [libkpathsea3 on tetex-lib] [dpkg on libc6] [dpkg on libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2] [xfonts-100dpi on xbase-clients] [svgalibg1 on svgalib-dummyg1] [svgalibg1 on svgalib-dummy1]
Conf dia-common (0.88.1-3 Debian:testing)
Conf dia (0.88.1-3 Debian:testing)
E: Fatal, conflicts violated imlib1
E: Fatal, conflicts violated libpam0g
E: Fatal, conflicts violated libpam0g
E: Fatal, conflicts violated menu
E: Fatal, conflicts violated ibritish
[...]
E: Fatal, conflicts violated svgalibg1
E: Fatal, conflicts violated svgalibg1
Altogether, 86 packages listed
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