Koen van der Drift wrote: > I'm trying to force remove a package, but get this output: > > $ sudo apt-get remove xml-parser-pm588 > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these: > Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: > intltool40: Depends: xml-parser-pm588 but it is not going to be > installed > software-license-pm588: Depends: data-section-pm588 but it is not > going to be installed > Depends: mro-compat-pm588 but it is not > going to be installed > Depends: sub-exporter-pm588 but it is not > going to be installed > Depends: sub-install-pm588 but it is not > going to be installed > Depends: text-template-pm but it is not > going to be installed > E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or > specify a solution). > > > I don't understand this, why would it complain about unmet > dependencies when I want to *remove* a package??
You will probably get the same complaint from apt-get whenever you ask it to do *anything*. It just refuses to work as long as it feels something is unclean in its database. dpkg is much less inhibited, you can use it to --remove --force-all whatever you wish. OTOH, the complaint seems to indicate among other things that xml-parser-pm588 is not installed, at least not according to apt-get. I don't know if apt-get or apt-cache can give you more detailed information, but "dpkg -l" will. -- Martin ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
