On Thu, 1 Jun 2000, Ron Rademaker wrote: > Your upgrade gives you some trouble, I've had it too, the way I fixed it > is not a real nice way but it worked. I did the following: > > Went to the directory where apt downloaded to, used dpkg several times > with all kind of --force options, after lots of puzzling which package I'd > do next and what force option I should use this time, finally... finally > my system was upgraded and running. > > If anybody has other ideas, you should probably try those first.
Some of the messages spit out when you run into a predepend problem should tell you what packages are involved; manually install and configure the package that is predepended on, then pickup were you left off. "dpkg --configure-pending" is a good thing to do, and may even solve the predepend problem. later, Bruce