On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 03:07:19PM -0700, Ross Boylan <ross@betterworld.us> was heard to say: > Hmm, while tring to install the build dependencies for aptitude I got > the same message, though I used apt-get: > > corn:~# apt-get -q build-dep aptitude > Reading package lists... > Building dependency tree... > The following packages will be REMOVED: > preview-latex-style texlive texlive-context texlive-doc-en > texlive-fonts-recommended texlive-generic-recommended texlive-latex-base > texlive-latex-recommended texlive-metapost texlive-pdfetex texlive-pstricks > tipa > The following NEW packages will be installed: > docbook-xsl libapt-pkg-dev libcppunit-1.12-0 libcppunit-dev libncursesw5-dev > libsgmls-perl libsigc++-2.0-dev libsp1c2 po4a sp > 0 upgraded, 10 newly installed, 12 to remove and 58 not upgraded. > 12 not fully installed or removed. > Need to get 4440kB of archives. > After unpacking 181MB disk space will be freed. > Do you want to continue [Y/n]? > Get:1 http://debian.betterworld.us testing/main docbook-xsl 1.70.1.dfsg.1-0.2 [1208kB] > Get:2 http://debian.betterworld.us testing/main libapt-pkg-dev 0.6.45 [82.7kB] > Get:3 http://debian.betterworld.us testing/main libcppunit-1.12-0 1.12.0-1 [112kB] > Get:4 http://debian.betterworld.us testing/main libcppunit-dev 1.12.0-1 [222kB] > Get:5 http://debian.betterworld.us testing/main libncursesw5-dev 5.5-2 [438kB] > Get:6 http://debian.betterworld.us testing/main libsgmls-perl 1.03ii-31 [29.3kB] > Get:7 http://debian.betterworld.us testing/main libsigc++-2.0-dev 2.0.16-3 [141kB] > Get:8 http://debian.betterworld.us testing/main libsp1c2 1.3.4-1.2.1-47 [1345kB] > Get:9 http://debian.betterworld.us testing/main sp 1.3.4-1.2.1-47 [176kB] > Get:10 http://debian.betterworld.us testing/main po4a 0.27.2-1 [685kB] > Fetched 4440kB in 32s (138kB/s) > Reading package fields... Done > Reading package status... Done > Retrieving bug reports... Done > debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Dialog > debconf: (Dialog frontend will not work on a dumb terminal, an emacs shell buffer, or without a controlling terminal.) > debconf: falling back to frontend: Readline > dpkg: error processing preview-latex-style (--remove): > Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should > reinstall it before attempting a removal. > terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::logic_error' > what(): basic_string::_S_construct NULL not valid > Aborted > corn:~# (Reading database ... 155709 files and directories currently installed.) > Removing texlive ... Well, I think that makes it quite likely that it's not an aptitude bug -- maybe a problem with apt's code for running dpkg? Daniel
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