Bug#258851: libdb4.0: can't uninstall?
After upgrading a bunch of packages (apache apache-common apache-ssl
apache-utils libperl-dev libperl5.8 perl perl-base perl-modules) to the
version in unstable (from testing), this problem went away. Go figure...
Sorry for wasting your time.
Jayen
On Sun, 11 Jul 2004, Jayen Ashar wrote:
> > Could you try apt-get -f install and see what apt wants to do?
> Try #1:
> >apt-get -f install libdb4.0
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> libdb4.0 is already the newest version.
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded.
>
> Try #2:
> >apt-get -f install --reinstall libdb4.0
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 3 not
> upgraded.
> Need to get 0B/302kB of archives.
> After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
> (Reading database ... 75716 files and directories currently installed.)
> Preparing to replace libdb4.0 4.0.14-2 (using
> .../libdb4.0_4.0.14-2_i386.deb) ...
> Unpacking replacement libdb4.0 ...
> Setting up libdb4.0 (4.0.14-2) ...
>
> >apt-get remove libdb4.0
> 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:
>
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> xlibs: Depends: libxft1 but it is not going to be installed
> E: Broken packages
>
> Try #3:
> >apt-get -f remove libdb4.0
> 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:
>
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> xlibs: Depends: libxft1 but it is not going to be installed
> E: Broken packages
>
> Any other ideas?
>
> --Jayen
>
>
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