Re: aptitute "Unable to correct dependencies" -- how to fix?
On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 02:19:26PM +0100, Adam Funk wrote:
> For a while now I've been getting the problem below.
>
> My /etc/apt/apt.conf contains only two lines.
>
> APT::Default-Release "testing";
> APT::Clean-Installed "off";
>
> My /etc/apt/preferences has one hand-coded pin and a bunch produced by
> apt-listbugs. I tried removing the hand-coded pin and still got the same
> result.
>
> # aptitude dist-upgrade
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree
> Reading extended state information
> Initializing package states... Done
> Reading task descriptions... Done
> E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused
> by held packages.
> E: Unable to correct dependencies, some packages cannot be installed
>
> # aptitude -f -D dist-upgrade
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree
> Reading extended state information
> Initializing package states... Done
> Reading task descriptions... Done
> E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused
> by held packages.
> E: Unable to correct dependencies, some packages cannot be installed
>
> I would appreciate suggestions on what to try next in order to track down
> the problem.
>
Start aptitude in interactive mode, and press "b" to find broken
packages.
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