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Re: libgconf2 dependencies..



On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 10:32:00AM +1100, Rich Healey wrote:
> I can't upgrade a lot of packages (perl for one) because apt says that:
> 
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>   libgconf2-4: Depends: gconf2-common (>= 2.22) but it is not going to
> be installed
>                Depends: gconf2-common (< 2.23) but it is not going to be
> installed
> E: Broken packages
> [xenia:/home/richo]#
> 
> BUT
> 
> [xenia:/home/richo]# dpkg -l *gconf*
> Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
> | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
> |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err:
> uppercase=bad)
> ||/ Name           Version        Description
> +++-==============-==============-============================================
> ii  gconf2         2.22.0-1       GNOME configuration database system
> (support
> ii  gconf2-common  2.22.0-1       GNOME configuration database system
> (common
> ii  libgconf2-4    2.22.0-1       GNOME configuration database system
> (shared
> [xenia:/home/richo]#
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> so you know,
> [xenia:/home/richo]# apt-cache policy libgconf2-4
> libgconf2-4:
>   Installed: 2.22.0-1
>   Candidate: 2.22.0-1
>   Version table:
>  *** 2.22.0-1 0
>         499 http://ftp.iinet.net.au unstable/main Packages
>         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>      2.20.1-3 0
>         500 http://ftp.iinet.net.au lenny/main Packages
> [xenia:/home/richo]#

that looks like it might be corruption in your apt database. Try
moving aside /var/cache/apt/pkgcache.bin and updating. 

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