Re: Etch dependency failures
On Saturday 18 February 2006 15:08, Patrick Wiseman wrote:
> On 2/18/06, David Jarvie <lists@astrojar.org.uk> wrote:
> > I'm running Etch. For a few weeks now, whenever I do my regular (more
> > than once a week) 'aptitude dist-upgrade', I get messages about unmet
> > dependencies. The original ones were about libpaper1 and libpaper-utils,
> > but
> > in the last week or so more have started appearing each time. I'm
> > surprised
> > that these haven't been fixed quickly. Does anybody know what is the
> > reason
> > for these errors?
> >
> > The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> > libpaperg: Depends: libpaper1 (= 1.1.14-3) but 1.1.14-5 is to be
> > installed.
> > Depends: libpaper-utils (= 1.1.14-3) but 1.1.14-5 is to be
> > installed.
> > python2.3-glade2: Depends: python2.3-gtk2 (= 2.6.3-2) but 2.8.2-3 is
> > installed.
> > dbus-glib-1: Depends: dbus-1 (>= 0.23.4) but it is not installable
> > libhal0: Depends: dbus-1 (>= 0.23.4) but it is not installable
> > libhal-storage0: Depends: dbus-1 (>= 0.23.4) but it is not installable
> > dbus-qt-1-dev: Depends: dbus-qt-1c2 (= 0.23.4-8) but it is not
> > installable
> > Depends: dbus-1-dev (= 0.23.4-8) but it is not
> > installable
>
> I had a similar experience 3 or 4 weeks ago (I do weekly updates with
> aptitude). Aptitude reported that several packages - a list similar to
> that above - were broken. I followed the broken dependencies and fixed
> them one by one (using 'b' in aptitude to find each broken package, and
> then examining each one for what was missing and installing it). As I
> recall, it took a couple of passes to get everything back in order, but I
> haven't had the problem since. Of course, all that should not be necessary
> - but at least it worked, for me at least.
Aptitude didn't show any broken packages for me. But I tried marking one of
two of the packages as automatically installed, and that allowed aptitude to
resolve the errors. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.
--
David Jarvie.
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