Re: Partially broken tasksel after dist-upgrade
On (12/06/03 10:01), Andrew A. Raines wrote:
> Unfortunately, I didn't find chapters 5 & 6 of the Debian
> Reference Manual before I tried to upgrade my machine from a 3.0
> instal to testing. Now I'm having problems. Although, I've done
> `apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade' before and it's worked
> great. Maybe APT's been reworked since I did that.
>
> My problem is that whenever I enter tasksel to install X and
> Gnome, it bombs out with:
>
> ,----
> | Reading Package Lists... Done
> | Building Dependency Tree... Done
> | Sorry, imlib-base is already the newest version.
> | Sorry, x-window-system-core is already the newest version.
> | Sorry, menu is already the newest version.
> | Sorry, x-window-system is already the newest version.
> | Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
> | requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
> | distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
> | or been moved out of Incoming.
> | The following information may help to resolve the situation:
> |
> | Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
> | gnome-utils: Depends: libgal19 (>= 0.19) but it is not installable
> | kdebase-audiolibs: Depends: libvorbis0 (>= 1.0rc3-1) but it is not installable
> | E: Sorry, broken packages
> `----
>
> I can install (using apt) other packages without complicated
> dependencies, so I don't think my whole database is fried.
> Trying to remove packages and apt-get update'ing multiple times
> has proved useless.
>
> How can I recover? Should I downgrade to stable and try
> upgrading the right way? The manual suggested that could cause
> more problems.
>
You could try recovering using deslect; it prompts you for dependancies
but be careful that you don't ask it to uninstall software you want to
keep.
Clive
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