Re: APT::Force-LoopBreak

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

Christian Stalp wrote:

> I got some problem while my notebook-installation.
> I got an error concerning the failure of deleting a essential parcel 
> "e2fsprogs". 
> While the installation apt told me that this parcel has to be deleted. But 
> when I confirm this I got this dump: E: Internal Error, Could not early 
> remove e2fsprogs.... 
>
> apt told me to set the APT::Force-LoopBreak-parameter.
> I tied this:  apt-config -o APT::Force-LoopBreak=true
> or this:       apt-config -o APT::Force-LoopBreak="true"
> or this:       apt-config -o APT::Force-LoopBreak="1"
> .... and so on....
> Nothing worked.

I feel your pain. I've had this happen a few times, and it took me 
forever to figure out hte correct syntax. Unfortunately, I have not 
documented it ... wait, wait, yes, apparently I have ... (thanks, Google!):

http://www.debianforums.com/ftopic20753.html

> In both cases, I was able to get around the problem by creating the file
> "/etc/apt/apt.conf" and putting in it the line:
>
> APT::Force-LoopBreak "true";
>
> After doing my upgrade, I remove/rename that file to avoid potential
> issues in the future.