Bug#45646: marked as done (apt: error message given is offtopic)
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From: Paul Slootman <paul@wau.mis.ah.nl>
Subject: apt: error message given is offtopic
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Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 09:56:47 +0200
Package: apt
Version: 0.3.12
Severity: normal
When cleaning up old packages etc., I tried to remove svgalibg1 as well;
just before, removing svgalib1 worked fine:
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# apt-get remove svgalib1
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
svgalib1
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 5 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 304kB will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
(Reading database ... 39589 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing svgalib1 ...
# apt-get remove svgalibg1
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... 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.
Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
gv: Depends: gs
E: Sorry, broken packages
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The error message is saying that the package couldn't be installed.
However, I wasn't trying to install anything! Also, apt-get check
doesn't complain.
I have gs-aladdin installed, which Provides: gs and depends on svgalibg1.
However, this I found out by digging aroung myself, the apt-get error
message doesn't help any here.
Paul Slootman
-- System Information
Debian Release: potato
Kernel Version: Linux janux 2.2.12 #1 Thu Aug 26 12:52:51 MEST 1999 i586 unknown
Versions of the packages apt depends on:
ii libc6 2.1.2-2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and timezone
ii libstdc++2.10 2.95.2-0pre1 The GNU stdc++ library
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These bugs are fixed in the latest APT upload to unstable, 0.3.14:
apt (0.3.14) unstable; urgency=low
* Fix Perl or group pre-depends thing Closes: #46091, #46096, #46233, #45901
* Fix handling of dpkg's conversions from < -> <= Closes: #46094, #47088
* Make unparsable priorities non-fatal Closes: #46266, #46267, #46293, #46298
* Fix handling of '/' for the dist name. Closes: #43830, #45640, #45692
* Fixed 'Method gave a blank filename' error from IMS queries onto CDs.
Closes: #45034, #45695, #46537
* Made OR group handling in the problem resolver more elaborate. Closes: #45646
* Added APT::Clean-Installed option. Closes: #45973
* Moves the free space check to after the calculated size is printed.
Closes: #46639, #47498
* mipsel arch Closes: #47614
* Beautified URI printing to not include passwords Closes: #46857
* Fixed little problem with --no-download Closes: #47557
* Tweaked Dselect 'update' script to re-gen the avail file even in the
event of a failure Closes: #47112
* Retries for source archives too Closes: #47529
* Unmounts CDROMs iff it mounted them Closes: #45299
* Checks for the partial directories before doing downloads Closes: #47392
* no_proxy environment variable (http only!) Closes: #43476
* apt-cache showsrc Closes: #45799
* De-Refs Single Pure virtual packages. Closes: #42437, #43555
* Regexs for install. Closes: #35304, #38835
* Dependency reports now show OR group relations
* Re-Install feature. Cloes: #46961, #37393, #38919
* Locks archive directory on clean (woops)
* Remove is not 'sticky'. Closes: #48392
* Slightly more accurate 'can not find package' message. Closes: #48311
* --trivial-only and --no-remove. Closes: #48518
* Increased the cache size. Closes: #47648
* Comment woopsie. Closes: #48789
* Removes existing links when linking sources. Closes: #48775
* Problem resolver does not install all virtual packages. Closes: #48591, #49252
* Clearer usage message about 'source' Closes: #48858
* Immediate configure internal error Closes: #49062, #48884
-- Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org> Sun, 7 Nov 1999 20:21:25 -0800
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