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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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