Re: Re: Strange Package Behavior

[Glen <journeay@gmail.com>]

Ralf,

Ran the following commands as suggested:

dpkg --configure -a
dpkg --configure --pending
apt-get -f install
apt-get update


Then tried an install:

root@honcho:~# apt-get install fglrx-legacy-driver
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 fglrx-legacy-driver : Depends: glx-alternative-fglrx (>= 0.3)
                       Recommends: fglrx-legacy-modules-dkms (=
8.97.100.7-3~bpo70+1) but it is not going to be installed or
                                   fglrx-kernel-8.97.100.7
                       Recommends: libgl1-fglrx-legacy-glx (=
8.97.100.7-3~bpo70+1) but it is not going to be installed
                       Recommends: libgl1-fglrx-legacy-glx-i386 but it
is not installable
                       Recommends: fglrx-legacy-atieventsd but it is not
going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
root@honcho:~# 

I am running multiarchitecture  - i386 on an amd_64 system to run some
32 bit programs, but I've never seen i386 packages required for a 64 bit
package to run.  I have read that 32 bit video drivers are required to
run 32 bit programs, but I never had to do this for squeeze - that I can
remember.

Thanks for your help,

Glen