hi i hope someone can help to fix my small problem regarding apt-upgrade. today i have upgraded with (slightly reformatted output) igate:~# apt-get upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages have been kept back analog ash fileutils gsynaptic libc6 libc6-dev libcompress-zlib-perl libconvert-uulib-perl libdbd-mysql-perl libdbi-perl libhtml-parser-perl libmime-base64-perl libunix-syslog-perl msttcorefonts nessusd perl perl-base perl-doc perl-modules perl-tk python python2.1 shellutils textutils webalizer 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 25 not upgraded. so i thought its to to a igate:~# apt-get dist-upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Calculating Upgrade... Done The following NEW packages will be installed: coreutils dash defoma dialog gdk-imlib2 libdb1-compat libdb4.0 openssl python2.2 The following packages have been kept back analog webalizer 23 packages upgraded, 9 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/27.7MB of archives. After unpacking 22.9MB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y Preconfiguring packages ... dpkg: regarding .../coreutils_4.5.1-1_i386.deb containing coreutils: fileutils conflicts with stat coreutils provides stat and is to be installed. dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/coreutils_4.5.1-1_i386.deb (--unpack): conflicting packages - not installing coreutils Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/coreutils_4.5.1-1_i386.deb E: This installation run will require temporarily removing the essential package fileutils due to a Conflicts/Pre-Depends loop. This is often bad, but if you really want to do it, activate the APT::Force-LoopBreak option. E: Reverse conflicts early remove for package 'coreutils' failed E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) igate:~# so, i dont want to use the force-loopbreak, because a) i dont know exaclty whats happening b) seems to be too dangerous after searching the web i found that the fileutils is an empty package with no content. and the coreutils replaces this package. but updating with igate:~# dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/fileutils_4.5.1-1_all.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/coreutils_4.5.1-1_i386.deb dpkg: regarding .../fileutils_4.5.1-1_all.deb containing fileutils, pre-dependency problem: fileutils pre-depends on coreutils coreutils is not installed. dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/fileutils_4.5.1-1_all.deb (--install): pre-dependency problem - not installing fileutils dpkg: regarding .../coreutils_4.5.1-1_i386.deb containing coreutils: fileutils conflicts with stat coreutils provides stat and is to be installed. dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/coreutils_4.5.1-1_i386.deb (--install): conflicting packages - not installing coreutils Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/fileutils_4.5.1-1_all.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/coreutils_4.5.1-1_i386.deb igate:~# also failed. so maybe someone has an idea how to solve this problem? cu, goofy
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