Re: .deb dependancy hell

[Sebastiaan <S.Breedveld@ewi.tudelft.nl>]

Hi,

On Wed, 28 Jan 2004, Richard Hoskins wrote:

> On unstable, i386.
>
> Kind of reminds me of RPM:
>
>    rich@lajoie:~$ sudo dpkg -r libgphoto2-2
>    dpkg: dependency problems prevent removal of libgphoto2-2:
>     libgphoto2-port0 depends on libgphoto2-2.
>    dpkg: error processing libgphoto2-2 (--remove):
>     dependency problems - not removing
>    Errors were encountered while processing:
>     libgphoto2-2
>
>    rich@lajoie:~$ sudo dpkg -r libgphoto2-port0
>    dpkg: dependency problems prevent removal of libgphoto2-port0:
>     libgphoto2-2 depends on libgphoto2-port0 (>= 2.1.4-1).
>    dpkg: error processing libgphoto2-port0 (--remove):
>     dependency problems - not removing
>    Errors were encountered while processing:
>     libgphoto2-port0
>
that's why we have apt :).
Try:
apt-get remove libgphoto2-2
or if there is an error somewhere
apt-get remove libgphoto2-2 libgphoto2-2-port0
or: dpkg -r libgphoto2-2 libgphoto2-2-port0

To see if all dependencies are satisfied (and/or to correct it):
apt-get -f install

Greetz,
Sebas




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