Re: Bug#38777: apt: internal error (problem resolver)
On Wed, 2 Jun 1999, Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler wrote:
> this is some kind of addition to #38772, but essentially unrelated.
> I downloaded the new pgp-i version by manual ftp, and installed it
> with dpkg -i.
> Out of curiousity I tried
>
> apt-get -df dist-upgrade
This is a misleading error message. The trouble is that you have placed to
conflicting packages on hold - there is simply no way for APT to fix that
without ignoring the hold so it bails somewhat ungracefully. I've improved
the error message.
Jason
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