Re: apt-get upgrade problem with libenchant1c2a

[Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com>]

David Goodenough wrote:
> I have a sacrificial machine that I keep upto date with sid every 
> morning.  Yesterday and today I get an error:-
>
> Calculating upgrade... Failed
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>  libenchant1c2a : Depends: aspell-en but it is not going to be installed or
>                            myspell-dictionary or
>                            aspell-dictionary or
>                            ispell-dictionary or
>                            hunspell-dictionary
>                   Recommends: enchant but it is not going to be installed
> E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by 
> held packages.
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree     
>
> But apt-cache policy libenchant1c2a says:-
>
>   Installed: 1.6.0-10
>   Candidate: 1.6.0-10
>
> so it should not need upgrading at all.
>
> Also aspell-en is installed.
>
> Is this related to Ubuntu bug  #1096669?  There is nothing in bugs.debian.org
> that seems to fit the bill.
>
> Any ideas?

I get that with dist-upgrade and not with upgrade. Googling the error it 
seems that doing upgrade will resolve that. But I haven't tried that!

Hugo