Re: apt-get upgrade problem with libenchant1c2a

[Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com>]

Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> 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!
>
> when I do 'aptitude why' on that file, I get that it is a dependency of 
> k3b, which is part of the upgrade. What happens if you do 'why'?

see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=721130

Hugo