Apt-get broken dependencies
After trying some of the suggestions in :
http://distrocenter.linux.com/article.pl?sid=05/10/12/1952217&tid=106
I'm still stuck with apt-get refusing to remove gforge-db-postgresql and
gforge-ldap-openldap because they depend on postgresql which was removed
first.
dpkg (remove and purge) also fail. ( dpkg sub process returns error code
(1) )
even apt-get -f remove doesn't fix the problem because it attempts to
INSTALL
postgresql (to solve the dependencies), and installing postgresql fails
because
/etc/init.d/postgresql is missing.
Now apt-get refuses to upgrade ANY software because of the broken
dependencies wth
gforge-db-postgresql and gforge-ldap-openldap.
Why is it impossible to REMOVE packages which depend on packages that are
not present?
Why is it impossible to force removal (purge) packages which depend on
packages that ARE NOT INSTALLED?
I can understand a warning when requesting removal of a package on which
OTHER packages do depend, when those packages ARE installed, but this is the
opposite case.
This would be something I would just ignore, except NOW apt-get will not
install ANY new software because of the broken dependencies.
At the end of the article cite above, it mentioned re-installing everything,
as a last resort. If I go that route it will be with another distro, since
Debian seems a little tired.
Bottom line: Postgresql (default) with Debian has caused problems since day
one, as have gforge, and now I have a dependency mess.
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