Re: upgrade broken (Testing) for 10 days - libxrender

[Uwe Dippel <udippel@uniten.edu.my>]

On Sat, 10 Apr 2004 14:50:05 +0200, Uwe Dippel wrote:

> On Thu, 08 Apr 2004 12:30:17 +0200, Sebastiaan wrote:
> 
>> Coming to libxrender-dev: seems libxrender1 depends on a lower version
>> than installed. You can try to manually download libxrender-dev
>> version 0.8.3-5 and carefully dpkg --force downgrade --install it (not to
>> mess up the rest of the packages/dependencies).
> 
> Done, but doesn't help. Only the last message goes away:
> 
> # apt-get upgrade 
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these.
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>   libxaw7-dev: Depends: x-dev but it is not installed
>                Depends: libxmu-dev but it is not installed
>                Depends: libxt-dev but it is not installed
>                Depends: libsm-dev but it is not installed
>                Depends: libice-dev but it is not installed
>                Depends: libxext-dev but it is not installed
>                Depends: libx11-dev but it is not installed
>                Depends: libxpm-dev but it is not installed
> E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.

Found a way out myself; but somewhat difficult:

apt-get remove --purge libxaw7-dev
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade
apt-get dist-upgrade
apt-get -f install
apt-get -f install  (yes, twice !)
apt-get dist-upgrade
apt-get install xlibmesa-gl-dev

And now I'm back at 

# apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Calculating Upgrade... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.