Bug#85544: marked as done (upgrade fails immediately with "cannot configure a predepend")
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From: Chris Butler <chrisb@debian.org>
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Subject: upgrade fails immediately with "cannot configure a predepend"
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Package: apt
Version: 0.3.19
Severity: grave
dselect-upgrade fails immediatly with:
[chrisb@downstairs:~] $ sudo apt-get -y dselect-upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
cslatex* csplain* libsnmp4.1* sl*
The following NEW packages will be installed:
fortunes-bofh-excuses host libbind0 libexpat1 libgnomeui33 libid3-3.7-13
libmng1 libsdl-image1.1 libsdl-mixer1.1 libsnmp-base libsnmp4.2 rblcheck
xmms-synaesthesia
320 packages upgraded, 13 newly installed, 4 to remove and 3 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/125MB of archives. After unpacking 11.3MB will be used.
E: Internal Error, Couldn't configure a pre-depend
-- System Information
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux downstairs 2.4.0 #1 SMP Mon Jan 15 20:29:43 GMT 2001 i686
Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii libc6 2.2.1-1 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libstdc++2.10 1:2.95.2-14 The GNU stdc++ library
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From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@debian.org>
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To: Chris Butler <chrisb@debian.org>, 85544-done@bugs.debian.org
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Subject: Re: Bug#85544: upgrade fails immediately with "cannot configure a predepend"
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On Sun, 11 Feb 2001, Chris Butler wrote:
> dselect-upgrade fails immediatly with:
This is not really an APT problem, you will have to find the package that
is causing this and file a proper bug on it. Last time it was libc6..
Jason
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