Re: Problem with apt-get/dselect/aptitude and unstable/stable packages

[Joseph Jones <joe@bumpycarrot.cjb.net>]

Monique Y. Herman wrote:

> On Sat, 18 Oct 2003 at 14:51 GMT, Joseph Jones penned:
>  
>
> > I installed some unstable packages, and I'd like to know whether
> > there's a way of having dselect or whatever un-install all the
> > unstable packages without having to mess around fixing dependancies.
> > As in, I don't want it to do anything but un-install all the unstable
> > packages. My apt-get has been effectively frozen for several days
> > simply because it was impossible to un-install these packages without
> > scaring a newbie like me off.
> >
> > Any help appreciated :)
> >
> >    
>
> I think there's some critical info missing from your problem
> description.  Are you currently running stable and installed some
> unstable packages?
>
> What is happening when you try to uninstall these unstable packages that
> doesn't happen when you try to uninstall your stable packages?
Well, whenever apt-get tries to do anything, it says "Sorry, but the 
following packages have unmet dependencies:"

And lists a load of packages. I'm running stable with some unstable 
packages, and I get this error whenever apt-get tries to do anything. 
The last line says something about using a -f option. When I checked the 
help, it said that it disregards the integrity check. I suspect that 
these packages are dependencies of linneighborhood, but I can't figure 
out why dselect/aptitude (whichever I used to d/l linneighborhood from 
the unstable set) didn't download them as well. Now it's stuck in this 
state.