On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 04:26:19PM +0800, Wei Chen wrote: > Hi, > > I met a problem today when I was trying to 'apt-get upgrade' my testing debian. Now apt doesnt allow me to install any packages, like this: > > # apt-get install wordnet-dev > 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: > hal: Depends: udev (>= 0.063) but 0.056-3 is to be installed > E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution). > > And when I do 'apt-get -f install', it says that: > > # apt-get -f install > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > Correcting dependencies... Done > The following extra packages will be installed: > udev > The following packages will be upgraded: > udev > 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. > 1 not fully installed or removed. > Need to get 0B/310kB of archives. > After unpacking 270kB of additional disk space will be used. > Do you want to continue? [Y/n] > (Reading database ... 123001 files and directories currently installed.) > Preparing to replace udev 0.056-3 (using .../archives/udev_0.068-2_i386.deb) ... > udev requires a kernel >= 2.6.12, upgrade aborted. > dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/udev_0.068-2_i386.deb (--unpack): > subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1 > Errors were encountered while processing: > /var/cache/apt/archives/udev_0.068-2_i386.deb > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > > Does it mean that I have to upgrade the kernel? And if so, how should I do that? Because apt dont let me install any package now... > > BTW, I am wondering that if the new kernel installation command should be 'apt-get install linux-image-686' on my P4 machine. > > Any Clue? Thank you in advance. > 1. Please don't thread hijack. 2. Have you done an `apt-get update` recently? -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto
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