Re: unment dependencies - force?
On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 12:04:25PM -0700, Curtis Vaughan wrote:
> I believe this is because I have a partial testing/woody environment
> that I often get errors when trying to configure certain applications
> like the following. My question is, what can I do when I get such
> errors. Is it advisable to force installation?
Generally no, although I remember upgrading a system from potato to
woody back in January where --force helped when upgrading perl.
Dependencies are there for a reason.
> Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
> libglib1.2-dev: Depends: libglib1.2 (= 1.2.10-4) but 1.2.10-6 is to be
> installed
> E: Sorry, broken packages
In this case, it looks like the only differences between libglib1.2
versions is in the dependencies (going by the changelog), so you might
be able to get away with it, even though you could probably upgrade
libglib1.2-dev.
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