On Feb 27, 2004, at 10:37 AM, Joel Daynes wrote:


I tried doing what you suggested, with the following result:

sudo apt-get install dlcompat-shlibs
Password:
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Sorry, dlcompat-shlibs is already the newest version.
You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these:
Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
  xfree86: Conflicts: xfree86-base-threaded
           Conflicts: system-xfree86 but 2:4.3.99-2 is to be installed
  xfree86-shlibs: Conflicts: xfree86-base-threaded-shlibs
                  Conflicts: system-xfree86 but 2:4.3.99-2 is to be
installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or
specify a solution).


<AKH> Oh-Oh. What do you get from "fink list xfree86"?


Having not done a whole lot of dependency solving on my own in the past,
how do I go about solving the unmet dependencies listed? I tried apt-get
-f install, as it suggests, with the following result:


sudo apt-get -f install
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
system-xfree86 system-xfree86-shlibs
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 11 not upgraded.
1 packages not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
dpkg - warning: ignoring request to remove system-xfree86 which isn't
installed.
dpkg - warning: ignoring request to remove system-xfree86-shlibs which
isn't installed.
Setting up xfree86 (4.3.99.16-2) ...
ERROR: /etc/X11 exists, but is not a symlink to /usr/X11R6/etc.
dpkg: error processing xfree86 (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
xfree86
E: Sub-process /sw/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)



Any more suggestions?


Thanks-
Joel


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