I tried installing mozilla with disastrous results. It refused to install because of the libmng dependency shown below. Now KDE refuses to start up due to
Why won't apt-get/dpkg acknowlege the already installedpackage libmng1 (v 1.0.3-3)? Why won't "dpkg --purge libmng" remove an uninstalled package? I can only purge items which are in use!!? Is the rationale for this non-intuitive behavior published anywhere? And most importantly, how do I get out of this mess? Thanks --rich ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Script started on Sun Feb 17 15:51:54 2002 creaky:~# apt-get install mozilla You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these: Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: ksysctrl: Depends: libmng (>= 0.9.3-0) but it is not going to be installed ktimemon: Depends: libmng (>= 0.9.3-0) but it is not going to be installed libqt2.2: Depends: libmng (>= 0.9.3-0) but it is not going to be installed mozilla: Depends: libelfg0 but it is not going to be installed Depends: libnspr4 (= M18-3) but it is not going to be installed E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution). creaky:~# apt-get --f install Correcting dependencies... Done The following extra packages will be installed: libmng The following NEW packages will be installed: libmng 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded. 16 packages not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B/118kB of archives. After unpacking 418kB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y (Reading database ... 22636 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking libmng (from .../libmng_0.9.3-0.potato.3_powerpc.deb) ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libmng_0.9.3-0.potato.3_powerpc.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/libmng.la', which is also in package libmng1 Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/libmng_0.9.3-0.potato.3_powerpc.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) creaky:~# Script done on Sun Feb 17 15:52:54 2002