Bug#49819: dselect,apt: no way to update the system....
Package: apt
Version: apt
hello, am running latest potato, have now 3 systems that couldn't be updated
anymore.
apt-get upgrade gives back (3 cases):
================ 2x this one =================================
localhost:~# apt-get upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages have been kept back
cron gs netstd pingus proftpd pvm pvm-dev ssh
174 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 8 not upgraded.
1 packages not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/75.7MB of archives. After unpacking 1928kB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
100% [Scanning packages]
Configuring packages ...
/tmp/fileW04aOw: /usr/share/debconf/confmodule: No such file or directory
E: Sub-process dpkg-preconfig --apt returned an error code (1)
E: Failure running script dpkg-preconfig --apt
localhost:~# apt-get upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages have been kept back
cron gs netstd pingus proftpd pvm pvm-dev ssh
174 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 8 not upgraded.
1 packages not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/75.7MB of archives. After unpacking 1928kB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
100% [Scanning packages]
Configuring packages ...
/tmp/fileYhPuPD: /usr/share/debconf/confmodule: No such file or directory
E: Sub-process dpkg-preconfig --apt returned an error code (1)
E: Failure running script dpkg-preconfig --apt
============================ 3. one =====================================
yoda:~# apt-get upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these.
Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
communicator-nethelp-46: Depends: netscape-base-46 but it is not installable
Depends: communicator-base-46 but it is not
installable
communicator-spellchk-46: Depends: netscape-base-46 but it is not
installable
Depends: communicator-base-46 but it is not
installable
console-tools: Depends: console-tools-libs (= 1:0.2.3-1) but 1:0.2.3-5 is
installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.
yoda:~# apt-get -f install
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
bc binutils blas1 bsdutils bug console-data console-tools console-tools-libs
debconf
The following packages will be REMOVED:
apt-find communicator-nethelp-46 communicator-spellchk-46
9 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 3 to remove and 200 not upgraded.
63 packages not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/10.0MB of archives. After unpacking 1052kB will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
E: Internal Error, Could not perform immediate configuraton
anything i can do?
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