Re: Problems with apt

[Karl Hegbloom <hegbloom@pdx.edu>]

On Tue, 2004-06-29 at 11:01 -0700, Jonas Jasas wrote:
> > I bet you didn't:
> > # apt-get update
> Yes I did.
> 
> > You only need to do that if there are dependency issues beforehand.
> Normaly I am getting:
> 
> stekas:/usr/bin# 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:
>   libxft-dev: Depends: libxft2 (= 2.1.2-5) but 2.1.2-6 is installed
> E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.
> 
> How to getrid of libxft-dev package now?

I find solving this sort of dependency problem much simpler using the
interactive interface of "aptitude".  Have you tried it?

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Karl Hegbloom <hegbloom@pdx.edu>