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Re: Question on dependencies



On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 12:01:05PM -0400, Mike Dresser wrote:
> I'm doing the ssh updates on a potato machine here, and running into
> problems, due to having to use lilo out of woody.
> 
> pellusbackup:~# apt-get install ssh
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these:
> Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
>   lilo: Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.4-4) but 2.1.3-20 is to be installed
>   ssh: Depends: libssl0.9.6 but it is not going to be installed
> E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or
> specify a solution).
> 
> How do I override the lilo dependency on 2.2.4-4 that it doesn't actually
> need in this case?

Um, that looks risky. Wouldn't it be safer to rebuild the lilo package
from woody on a potato system so that it will actually have satisfied
dependencies?

apt-get considers unsatisfied dependencies on a system to be very bad.

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]


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