On Fri, 06 Jun 2003 14:45:37 -0600 Harshwardhan Nagaonkar wrote: Please don't Cc: me on list mail. Just reply to the list, I'll be sure to read it :)
> Carlos Sousa wrote: > > On Fri, 06 Jun 2003 12:34:28 -0600 Harshwardhan Nagaonkar wrote: > > > >>Hello all, > >> I have been trying to upgrade a testing system for about 2 weeks now. > <snip> > > The problem went away when I uninstalled kdebase-audiolibs. You'll lose > > packages kde (virtual, no harm done) and kdebase-dev (development, not > > needed for kde usage). > <snip> > I read the bug report. It was interesting, but I only saw your bug > filed, I couldn't see the solution if it was there. If I did miss it, > please forgive my inability to see and post it here please. That's it, there are no further postings to the bug. > Here is what > I did by interpreting what you said about removing kdebase-audiolibs... > > I tried to uninstall kdebase-audiolibs with #apt-get remove > kdebase-audiolibs , but it gave the following error: > ******************************************************************* > # apt-get remove kdebase-audiolibs > 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: > > Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: > kde: Depends: kdebase-audiolibs but it is not going to be installed or > kdebase3-audiolibs but it is not installable > E: Sorry, broken packages > *********************************************************************** Should have warned you about this and advise you to use dpkg. Sorry :( > Then I tried many combinations of forcing it to do it like apt-get > remove -m kdebase-audiolibs, but to no avail. > > Then I read up some more in $man apt-get and it suggested manually > uninstalling using dpkg in extreme cases. So I used dpkg, but it would > not let me do it right away. So I used dpkg with forcing : > ********************************************************************* > #dpkg --remove --force-all kdebase-audiolibs > dpkg: kdebase-audiolibs: dependency problems, but removing anyway as you > request: > kde depends on kdebase-audiolibs | kdebase3-audiolibs; however: > Package kdebase-audiolibs is to be removed. > Package kdebase3-audiolibs is not installed. > (Reading database ... 76702 files and directories currently installed.) > Removing kdebase-audiolibs ... > ******************************************************************* > > Then when I try to an apt-get dist-upgrade, it installs > kdebase-audiolibs again and nothing else!!! Don't fight the package management. As long as kde and kdebase-dev are on the system, apt will try to satisfy its dependencies. Just try: dpkg --remove kdebase-audiolibs kde kdebase-dev and you should be ok. > What is the command/route that you used to get rid of kdebase-audiolibs > in such a way as to solve the problem (apt-get remove -fm, dpkg --force > etc....) ? And once you got it to uninstall, which command fixed things > back to normal? Try the above, you should be fine. Good luck. -- Carlos Sousa http://vbc.dyndns.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
