Re: apt-get upgrade problem with libenchant1c2a

[Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com>]

David Goodenough wrote:
> On Wednesday 28 Aug 2013, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> > 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
> Well the script I run every morning does update then upgrade then dist-upgrade
> then auto-remove, so if it is the dist-upgrade then it has just done an 
> upgrade, so I do not think that is going to help.  
>
> I have just tried running an upgrade on its own, and it had nothing to do, and 
> then a dist-upgrade which failed.  So doing an upgrade does not help.

Sorry for the false clue. And what when you do 'why'?

Hugo