Re: apt-get; all messed up by update...
As a start, I recommend you do:
apt-get install aptitude
Then use aptitude. It makes it easier to investigate dependency issues.
Someone more knowledgeable might have some more targeted suggestion.
Cheers,
Bret
On Sun, 2003-07-20 at 12:19, Gregory Guthrie wrote:
> I have a Woody system that has been running for over a year now without
> much change, and I just tried to do an apt-update, and then apt-upgrade,
> and the whole thing seems to be totally messed up. (see below)
>
> I hope I can recover it, as I have had apt do this to me several times over
> the past years, and had to completely re-load a few times. Why does this
> happen? Is apt too fragile..?
> My
>
> Thanks for any hints..!
> -----------------------------------
> theta:/etc/apt# apt-get upgrade
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> The following packages have been kept back
> cpp debian-policy dnsutils dwww emacs20 enlightenment eterm fvwm95 g++
> gcc groff
> groff-base htdig imlib1 libfnlib0 libstdc++2.10-dev libungif4g libxaw6
> libxaw7
> links ntop perl-5.005-doc samba samba-common smbclient smbfs swat tetex-bin
> tomcat vim vncserver xbase-clients xlibmesa3 xlibs xterm xvncviewer
> 216 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 36 not upgraded.
> Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
> imlib1: Depends: zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.3) but 1:1.1.4-1 is to be installed
> xbase-clients: Depends: libncurses5 (>= 5.2.20010310-1) but
> 5.2.20020112a-7 is to be installed
> Conflicts: xbase (< 3.3.2.3a-2) but it is not going to be
> installed
> Conflicts: xfonts-75dpi (< 3.3.3.1-3) but it is not going
> to be installed
> Conflicts: xfonts-cyrillic (< 3.3.3.1-3) but it is not
> going to be installed
> Conflicts: xfnt75 (<= 3.3.2.3a-1)
> E: Internal Error, InstallPackages was called with broken packages!
>
>
>
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> Gregory Guthrie
> guthrie@mum.edu (641)472-1125 Fax: -1103
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