Bug#489825: apt-get dependency system is broken (started an upgrade, now fails because of unmet dependencies)
Package: apt
Version: 0.7.14
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks the whole system
I wanted to switch from tetex to texlive and determined the packages
I needed and those I didn't want. So, I ran:
$ sudo apt-get install --purge texlive-base-bin texlive-common texlive-fonts-recommended texlive-generic-recommended texlive-lang-french texlive-latex-base texlive-latex-extra texlive-latex-recommended texlive-math-extra texlive-pictures lmodern tetex-base- tetex-bin- tetex-extra- texlive-humanities-doc- texlive-latex-base-doc- texlive-latex-recommended-doc- texlive-latex-extra-doc- texlive-base-bin-doc- texlive-pictures-doc- texlive-pstricks-doc- texlive-fonts-recommended-doc- texlive-lang-cyrillic- tipa- xmltex- texlive-extra-utils- texlive-science texlive-science-doc-
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package texlive-humanities-doc is not installed, so not removed
Package texlive-latex-base-doc is not installed, so not removed
Package texlive-latex-recommended-doc is not installed, so not removed
Package texlive-latex-extra-doc is not installed, so not removed
Package texlive-base-bin-doc is not installed, so not removed
Package texlive-pictures-doc is not installed, so not removed
Package texlive-pstricks-doc is not installed, so not removed
Package texlive-fonts-recommended-doc is not installed, so not removed
Package texlive-lang-cyrillic is not installed, so not removed
Package tipa is not installed, so not removed
Package texlive-extra-utils is not installed, so not removed
Package texlive-science-doc is not installed, so not removed
The following extra packages will be installed:
dvipdfmx preview-latex-style prosper tex-common texlive texlive-base
texlive-doc-base texlive-generic-extra texlive-humanities texlive-pstricks
Suggested packages:
texlive-doc-en
Recommended packages:
texlive-base-bin-doc texlive-fonts-recommended-doc tipa
texlive-humanities-doc texlive-latex-base-doc texlive-latex-extra-doc
texlive-latex-recommended-doc texlive-pictures-doc texlive-pstricks-doc
texlive-science-doc
The following packages will be REMOVED:
dblatex* dvi2ps-fontdata-bsr* latex-svninfo* latex-ucs* passivetex*
tetex-base* tetex-bin* tetex-extra* xmltex*
The following NEW packages will be installed:
dvipdfmx preview-latex-style prosper texlive texlive-base texlive-base-bin
texlive-common texlive-doc-base texlive-fonts-recommended
texlive-generic-extra texlive-generic-recommended texlive-humanities
texlive-lang-french texlive-latex-base texlive-latex-extra
texlive-latex-recommended texlive-math-extra texlive-pictures
texlive-pstricks texlive-science
The following packages will be upgraded:
lmodern tex-common
2 upgraded, 20 newly installed, 9 to remove and 76 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/50.6MB of archives.
After this operation, 20.8MB disk space will be freed.
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(Reading database ... 128574 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing dblatex ...
mktexlsr: Updating /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXMFMAIN...
mktexlsr: Done.
Purging configuration files for dblatex ...
Removing dvi2ps-fontdata-bsr ...
mktexlsr: Updating /usr/local/share/texmf/ls-R...
mktexlsr: Updating /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXMFMAIN...
mktexlsr: Updating /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXMFDIST-TETEX...
mktexlsr: Updating /var/lib/texmf/ls-R...
mktexlsr: Done.
Purging configuration files for dvi2ps-fontdata-bsr ...
dpkg - warning: while removing dvi2ps-fontdata-bsr, directory `/usr/share/texmf/fonts/tfm/bluesky' not empty so not removed.
Removing latex-svninfo ...
texhash: Updating /usr/local/share/texmf/ls-R...
texhash: Updating /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXMFMAIN...
texhash: Updating /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXMFDIST-TETEX...
texhash: Updating /var/lib/texmf/ls-R...
texhash: Done.
Purging configuration files for latex-svninfo ...
texhash: Updating /usr/local/share/texmf/ls-R...
texhash: Updating /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXMFMAIN...
texhash: Updating /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXMFDIST-TETEX...
texhash: Updating /var/lib/texmf/ls-R...
texhash: Done.
Removing passivetex ...
Purging configuration files for passivetex ...
Removing xmltex ...
Replacing config file /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf with new version
Purging configuration files for xmltex ...
dpkg: tetex-extra: dependency problems, but removing anyway as you request:
pdfjam depends on tetex-extra | texlive-latex-recommended; however:
Package tetex-extra is to be removed.
Package texlive-latex-recommended is not installed.
pdfjam depends on tetex-extra | texlive-fonts-recommended; however:
Package tetex-extra is to be removed.
Package texlive-fonts-recommended is not installed.
pdfjam depends on tetex-extra | texlive-latex-recommended; however:
Package tetex-extra is to be removed.
Package texlive-latex-recommended is not installed.
pdfjam depends on tetex-extra | texlive-fonts-recommended; however:
Package tetex-extra is to be removed.
Package texlive-fonts-recommended is not installed.
latex-beamer depends on tetex-extra | texlive-latex-base; however:
Package tetex-extra is to be removed.
Package texlive-latex-base is not installed.
texpower depends on tetex-extra | texlive-latex-recommended; however:
Package tetex-extra is to be removed.
Package texlive-latex-recommended is not installed.
texpower depends on tetex-extra | texlive-fonts-recommended; however:
Package tetex-extra is to be removed.
Package texlive-fonts-recommended is not installed.
texpower depends on tetex-extra | texlive-latex-recommended; however:
Package tetex-extra is to be removed.
Package texlive-latex-recommended is not installed.
texpower depends on tetex-extra | texlive-fonts-recommended; however:
Package tetex-extra is to be removed.
Package texlive-fonts-recommended is not installed.
latex-xcolor depends on tetex-extra | texlive-latex-recommended; however:
Package tetex-extra is to be removed.
Package texlive-latex-recommended is not installed.
latex2html depends on tetex-extra | texlive-latex-recommended; however:
Package tetex-extra is to be removed.
Package texlive-latex-recommended is not installed.
latex2html depends on tetex-extra | texlive-fonts-recommended; however:
Package tetex-extra is to be removed.
Package texlive-fonts-recommended is not installed.
latex2html depends on tetex-extra | texlive-latex-recommended; however:
Package tetex-extra is to be removed.
Package texlive-latex-recommended is not installed.
latex2html depends on tetex-extra | texlive-fonts-recommended; however:
Package tetex-extra is to be removed.
Package texlive-fonts-recommended is not installed.
Removing tetex-extra ...
Purging configuration files for tetex-extra ...
dpkg: tetex-bin: dependency problems, but removing anyway as you request:
rubber depends on texlive-latex-base | tetex-bin; however:
Package texlive-latex-base is not installed.
Package tetex-bin is to be removed.
latex-ucs-doc depends on tetex-bin | texlive-base-bin; however:
Package tetex-bin is to be removed.
Package texlive-base-bin is not installed.
dvipng depends on tetex-bin | texlive-base-bin; however:
Package tetex-bin is to be removed.
Package texlive-base-bin is not installed.
latex-ucs depends on tetex-bin | texlive; however:
Package tetex-bin is to be removed.
Package texlive is not installed.
tetex-frogg depends on texlive-latex-base | tetex-bin; however:
Package texlive-latex-base is not installed.
Package tetex-bin is to be removed.
latex2rtf depends on tetex-bin | texlive-base; however:
Package tetex-bin is to be removed.
Package texlive-base is not installed.
latex2html depends on tetex-bin (>= 1.0.7+20001218) | texlive-base-bin; however:
Package tetex-bin is to be removed.
Package texlive-base-bin is not installed.
latexmk depends on tetex-bin | texlive-latex-base; however:
Package tetex-bin is to be removed.
Package texlive-latex-base is not installed.
Removing tetex-bin ...
Purging configuration files for tetex-bin ...
dpkg: tetex-base: dependency problems, but removing anyway as you request:
pgf depends on tetex-base (>= 3.0) | texlive-latex-recommended; however:
Package tetex-base is to be removed.
Package texlive-latex-recommended is not installed.
Removing tetex-base ...
Purging configuration files for tetex-base ...
dpkg: latex-ucs: dependency problems, but removing anyway as you request:
latex-ucs-contrib depends on latex-ucs.
Removing latex-ucs ...
/var/lib/dpkg/info/latex-ucs.postrm: line 12: mktexlsr: command not found
dpkg: error processing latex-ucs (--purge):
subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 127
Processing triggers for python-support ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Processing triggers for doc-base ...
Processing 2 removed doc-base file(s)...
Registering documents with scrollkeeper...
Processing triggers for menu ...
/etc/roxmenu: line 4293: /usr/share/apps/Debian/Screen/Save/MarqueeMessage/Brilliant!/AppRun: No such file or directory
ln: creating symbolic link `/usr/share/apps/Debian/Screen/Save/MarqueeMessage/Brilliant!/Help': No such file or directory
chmod: cannot access `/usr/share/apps/Debian/Screen/Save/MarqueeMessage/Brilliant!/AppRun': No such file or directory
/etc/roxmenu: line 4328: /usr/share/apps/Debian/Screen/Save/NoseMessage/Brilliant!/AppRun: No such file or directory
ln: creating symbolic link `/usr/share/apps/Debian/Screen/Save/NoseMessage/Brilliant!/Help': No such file or directory
chmod: cannot access `/usr/share/apps/Debian/Screen/Save/NoseMessage/Brilliant!/AppRun': No such file or directory
Errors were encountered while processing:
latex-ucs
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
zsh: exit 100 sudo apt-get install --purge texlive-base-bin texlive-common lmodern
Then I tried again, but some dependencies are now unmet!
$ sudo apt-get install --purge texlive-base-bin texlive-common texlive-fonts-recommended texlive-generic-recommended texlive-lang-french texlive-latex-base texlive-latex-extra texlive-latex-recommended texlive-math-extra texlive-pictures lmodern tetex-base- tetex-bin- tetex-extra- texlive-humanities-doc- texlive-latex-base-doc- texlive-latex-recommended-doc- texlive-latex-extra-doc- texlive-base-bin-doc- texlive-pictures-doc- texlive-pstricks-doc- texlive-fonts-recommended-doc- texlive-lang-cyrillic- tipa- xmltex- texlive-extra-utils- texlive-science texlive-science-doc-
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package tetex-base is not installed, so not removed
Package tetex-bin is not installed, so not removed
Package tetex-extra is not installed, so not removed
Package texlive-humanities-doc is not installed, so not removed
Package texlive-latex-base-doc is not installed, so not removed
Package texlive-latex-recommended-doc is not installed, so not removed
Package texlive-latex-extra-doc is not installed, so not removed
Package texlive-base-bin-doc is not installed, so not removed
Package texlive-pictures-doc is not installed, so not removed
Package texlive-pstricks-doc is not installed, so not removed
Package texlive-fonts-recommended-doc is not installed, so not removed
Package texlive-lang-cyrillic is not installed, so not removed
Package tipa is not installed, so not removed
Package xmltex is not installed, so not removed
Package texlive-extra-utils is not installed, so not removed
Package texlive-science-doc is not installed, so not removed
You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
latex2rtf: Depends: tetex-bin but it is not going to be installed or
texlive-base but it is not going to be installed
lmodern: Depends: tex-common (>= 1.10) but 1.9 is to be installed
texlive-fonts-recommended: Depends: texlive-base (>= 2007-11) but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: texlive-fonts-recommended-doc but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: tipa (>= 2:1.2-2.1) but it is not going to be installed
texlive-generic-recommended: Depends: texlive-base (>= 2007-11) but it is not going to be installed
texlive-lang-french: Depends: texlive-base (>= 2007-11) but it is not going to be installed
texlive-latex-base: Depends: texlive-base (>= 2007-11) but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: texlive-latex-base-doc but it is not going to be installed
texlive-latex-extra: Depends: preview-latex-style but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: texlive-humanities but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: texlive-generic-extra but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: texlive-latex-extra-doc but it is not going to be installed
texlive-pictures: Depends: texlive-base (>= 2007-11) but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: texlive-pictures-doc but it is not going to be installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).
zsh: exit 100 sudo apt-get install --purge texlive-base-bin texlive-common lmodern
It says to run "apt-get -f install", but it wants to install packages
I've never asked (e.g. the -doc ones):
$ sudo apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
dvipdfmx prosper texlive-base texlive-base-bin texlive-base-bin-doc
texlive-common texlive-doc-base texlive-fonts-recommended
texlive-fonts-recommended-doc texlive-generic-recommended texlive-latex-base
texlive-latex-base-doc texlive-latex-recommended
texlive-latex-recommended-doc texlive-pstricks texlive-pstricks-doc tipa
The following packages will be REMOVED:
latex-ucs
The following NEW packages will be installed:
dvipdfmx prosper texlive-base texlive-base-bin texlive-base-bin-doc
texlive-common texlive-doc-base texlive-fonts-recommended
texlive-fonts-recommended-doc texlive-generic-recommended texlive-latex-base
texlive-latex-base-doc texlive-latex-recommended
texlive-latex-recommended-doc texlive-pstricks texlive-pstricks-doc tipa
0 upgraded, 17 newly installed, 1 to remove and 78 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 82.2MB/104MB of archives.
After this operation, 194MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
and I don't have enough disk space for that (this is an old machine...).
This lets the machine in the state that it can no longer be upgraded!
-- Package-specific info:
-- apt-config dump --
APT "";
APT::Architecture "powerpc";
APT::Build-Essential "";
APT::Build-Essential:: "build-essential";
APT::Install-Recommends "1";
APT::Install-Suggests "0";
APT::Acquire "";
APT::Acquire::Translation "environment";
APT::NeverAutoRemove "";
APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^linux-image.*";
APT::NeverAutoRemove:: "^linux-restricted-modules.*";
APT::Cache-Limit "33554432";
Dir "/";
Dir::State "var/lib/apt/";
Dir::State::lists "lists/";
Dir::State::cdroms "cdroms.list";
Dir::State::userstatus "status.user";
Dir::State::status "/var/lib/dpkg/status";
Dir::Cache "var/cache/apt/";
Dir::Cache::archives "archives/";
Dir::Cache::srcpkgcache "srcpkgcache.bin";
Dir::Cache::pkgcache "pkgcache.bin";
Dir::Etc "etc/apt/";
Dir::Etc::sourcelist "sources.list";
Dir::Etc::sourceparts "sources.list.d";
Dir::Etc::vendorlist "vendors.list";
Dir::Etc::vendorparts "vendors.list.d";
Dir::Etc::main "apt.conf";
Dir::Etc::parts "apt.conf.d";
Dir::Etc::preferences "preferences";
Dir::Bin "";
Dir::Bin::methods "/usr/lib/apt/methods";
Dir::Bin::dpkg "/usr/bin/dpkg";
Dir::Log "var/log/apt";
Dir::Log::Terminal "term.log";
DPkg "";
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs "";
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs:: "/usr/sbin/apt-listbugs apt || exit 10";
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs:: "/usr/bin/apt-listchanges --apt";
DPkg::Tools "";
DPkg::Tools::Options "";
DPkg::Tools::Options::/usr/sbin/apt-listbugs "";
DPkg::Tools::Options::/usr/sbin/apt-listbugs::Version "2";
DPkg::Tools::Options::/usr/bin/apt-listchanges "";
DPkg::Tools::Options::/usr/bin/apt-listchanges::Version "2";
DPkg::Post-Invoke "";
DPkg::Post-Invoke:: "if [ -x /usr/bin/debsums ]; then /usr/bin/debsums --generate=nocheck -sp /var/cache/apt/archives; fi";
Aptitude "";
Aptitude::UI "";
Aptitude::UI::Package-Display-Format "%c%a%M %p %Z %24v %24V";
-- /etc/apt/preferences --
Package: *
Pin: release a=stable
Pin-Priority: 900
Package: *
Pin: release a=testing
Pin-Priority: 900
Package: *
Pin: release a=unstable
Pin-Priority: 200
-- /etc/apt/sources.list --
# /etc/apt/sources.list
deb file:///usr/local/deb/ ./
deb http://fr.powerpc.mirror.debian.net/debian/ stable main non-free contrib
deb-src http://fr.powerpc.mirror.debian.net/debian/ stable main non-free contrib
deb http://fr.powerpc.mirror.debian.net/debian/ testing main non-free contrib
deb-src http://fr.powerpc.mirror.debian.net/debian/ testing main non-free contrib
deb http://fr.powerpc.mirror.debian.net/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib
deb-src http://fr.powerpc.mirror.debian.net/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib
deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org etch/updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://security.debian.org etch/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org lenny/updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://security.debian.org lenny/updates main contrib non-free
# For emacs-snapshot, as it is no longer maintained in Debian due to the GFDL
# (see <http://lists.debian.org/debian-emacsen/2007/03/msg00012.html>).
deb http://emacs.orebokech.com sid main
deb-src http://emacs.orebokech.com sid main
# See http://debian.video.free.fr/
#deb http://honk.sigxcpu.org/linux-ppc/debian/ mplayer/
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (900, 'stable'), (200, 'unstable')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-powerpc
Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1 (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii debian-archive-keyring 2008.04.16+nmu1 GnuPG archive keys of the Debian a
ii libc6 2.7-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libgcc1 1:4.3.1-2 GCC support library
ii libstdc++6 4.3.1-2 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
apt recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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