Raj Kombiyil wrote: > Fellow uber-debianers, > I have a problem with e2fsprogs. (Trying to install uni2ascii for > example, which depends on e2fsprogs) > My environment: Debian gnu/linux testing/unstable, Kernel version > 2.4.27(home brewed), libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22, sysvinit 2.84-2woody1 > > my sources.list > ========= > <snip> > #security > deb http://security.debian.org stable/updates main contrib non-free > # the main Debian packages. > deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian sid main contrib non-free > # the non-US Debian packages. > deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib > non-free > #Blackdown Java > deb ftp://ftp.tux.org/java/debian/ sarge non-free > </snip> > ======== > I have checked the earlier posts to this forum and it seems like this > is more of a problem of mixing distributions than anything to do with > the package. I have always used testing/unstable without any major > difficulties and recently with the release of SARGE I tweaked the > sources.list to point to the non-us "stable" distribution and forgot > about it, which might have caused the problem. All my work resides on > this system and I am "short of time". So without harming my > environment, is there a way around this problem - i.e; to fix ---> > --- > E: This installation run will require temporarily removing the > essential package e2fsprogs due to a Conflicts/Pre-Depends loop. This > is often bad, but if you really want to do it, activate the > APT::Force-LoopBreak option. > E: Internal Error, Could not early remove e2fsprogs > -- > Any advice/suggestions welcome. > Thanks in advance, > Raj > ps: I am not subscribed to the list, so I would appreciate it if you > could kindly mail me offlist. > > > -- > You have to be what you don't want to be, in order to be what you want > to be!
The only way I've been able to fix this problem (usually encountered when upgrading a "testing" distro) was to set "APT::Force-LoopBreak" in /etc/apt/apt.conf -- Mitch Wiedemann Webmaster - Ithaca Free Software Association http://ithacafreesoftware.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]