Re: apt-get install -f fail, please help
Dear Bruce or any linux er:
Hi Bruce, thanks your reply and hint, it work most of it ,
except
progeny:/var/cache/apt/archives# apt-get upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages have been kept back
abiword apache apache-common apmd apt ash autoinstall balsa base-config
bzip2 communicator console-data console-tools console-tools-libs cvs
debhelper debian-policy dh-make dia discover dnsutils dpkg elm-me+ eog
eperl
eterm fileutils freetype2 gabber gedit gftp glade-gnome glimmer gmc
gnome-applets gnome-control-center gnome-core gnome-help gnome-panel
gnome-panel-data gnome-session gnome-utils gnomeicu gnucash gnumeric gnupg
gnus groff gs gsfonts imagemagick libaudiofile-dev libbz2 libcapplet-dev
libcapplet0 libdps-dev libglib1.2 libglib1.2-dev libmagick5 libnspr4
libpam-modules libpanel-applet-dev libpanel-applet0 librep9 libwww-perl
lprng mc-common mozilla netpbm netscape ntp openssl parted perl-5.005-doc
psgml python-dev python-doc python-gdk-imlib python-glade python-gnome
python-gtk python-numeric rep rep-gtk rep-gtk-gnome samba samba-common
sawfish-gnome shellutils slrn smbclient sox squid ssh swig sysklogd
tetex-bin textutils util-linux vflib2 vim-gtk vm w3-el-e20 wget
xchat-gnome
xemacs21 xemacs21-bin xemacs21-mule xemacs21-support xemacs21-supportel
xlibmesa-dev xlibosmesa-dev xpdf xscreensaver xserver-8514 xserver-agx
xserver-common xserver-common-v3 xserver-mach32 xserver-mach8
xserver-p9000
xserver-s3 xserver-svga xserver-xfree86
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 124 not upgraded.
progeny:/var/cache/apt/archives#
it did not have error, but the upgrade is left alots things still need to do
for complete upgrade all remaining packages
highly appreciate your or any linux users's hint or advice again
sincere Eric
Bruce Sass wrote:
try:
# cd /var/cache/apt/archives
# dpkg -i --force-overwrite xlibs_4.2.1-3_i386.deb
then file a bug report... unless you are mixing packages from
different archives (stable, testing, unstable, 3rd-party),
in which case <shrug> and good luck.
HTH
- Bruce
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