> gimme dpkg -C output and the output from your failed apt-get install > > you probably need to finish installing tcl-tk, so we need to know why > it failed. Ok the output you requested is attached. Would it be simpler to reinstall at this point ? The system isn't really configured yet, so i wouldn't loose much work. Also i recompiled the kernel so modconf doens't work. How should i recompile the kernel to make modconf work ?? Jason
Script started on Wed Nov 29 18:53:41 2000 stampy:~# dpkg -C The following packages have been unpacked but not yet configured. They must be configured using dpkg --configure or the configure menu option in dselect for them to work: libgnomeui32 The Gnome libraries (User Interface) mc Midnight Commander - A powerful file manager. - normal ve imlib-base Common files needed by the Imlib/Gdk-Imlib packages libpanel-applet0 Library for Gnome Panel applets setserial Controls configuration of serial ports. gedit small, lightweight gnome-based editor for X11 gmc Midnight Commander - A powerful file manager. - Gnome ver libcapplet0 Library for Gnome Control Center applets libglade0 Library to load .glade files at runtime. libgnomesupport0 The Gnome libraries (Support libraries) gnome-help GNOME help browser manpages Man pages about using a Linux system. gnome-control-center The Gnome Control Center libglib1.2 The GLib library of C routines blt-dev Development in blt - a tcl/tk extension library liborbit0 Libraries for ORBit - a CORBA ORB gnome-faq Frequently Asked Questions about GNOME mc-common Common files for mc and gmc libart2 The Gnome canvas widget libglade-gnome0 Library to load .glade files at runtime (Gnome widgets su libgnome32 The Gnome libraries debhelper helper programs for debian/rules gnome-media Gnome Media Utilities (gmix, gtcd) libgtkxmhtml1 The Gnome gtkxmhtml (HTML) widget bsdmainutils More utilities from FreeBSD. libxml1 GNOME XML library gdk-imlib1 Gdk-Imlib is an imaging library for use with gtk ed The classic unix line editor libgnorba27 Gnome CORBA services libghttp1 Gnome HTTP client library gnome-libs-data Data for Gnome libraries gnome-help-data GNOME help browser data gnome-bin Miscellaneous binaries used by Gnome imlib1 Imlib is an imaging library for X and X11 libgtk1.2 The GIMP Toolkit set of widgets for X libgnorbagtk0 Gnome CORBA services (Gtk bindings) libpopt0 lib for parsing cmdline parameters tk8.2-dev The Tk toolkit for TCL and X11 v8.2 - Development Files. The following packages are only half configured, probably due to problems configuring them the first time. The configuration should be retried using dpkg --configure <package> or the configure menu option in dselect: tcl8.2-dev The Tool Command Language (TCL) v8.2 - Development Files. stampy:~# apt-get install Reading Package Lists... 0% Reading Package Lists... 100% Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... 0% Building Dependency Tree... 0% Building Dependency Tree... 50% Building Dependency Tree... 50% Building Dependency Tree... Done You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these. Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: gnome-help: Depends: gnome-core (>= 1.2.4-helix1) but 1.2.4-2 is installed E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f. stampy:~# apt-get -f install Reading Package Lists... 0% Reading Package Lists... 100% Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... 0% Building Dependency Tree... 0% Building Dependency Tree... 50% Building Dependency Tree... 50% Building Dependency Tree... Done Correcting dependencies... Done The following extra packages will be installed: gnome-core 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 138 not upgraded. 39 packages not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B/1253kB of archives. After unpacking 982kB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y (Reading database ... 44681 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace gnome-core 1.2.4-2 (using .../gnome-core_1.2.4-helix1_i386.deb) ... Unpacking replacement gnome-core ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/gnome-core_1.2.4-helix1_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/usr/share/man/man1/gnome-panel-properties-capplet.1.gz', which is also in package gnome-panel dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/gnome-core_1.2.4-helix1_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) stampy:~# exit Script done on Wed Nov 29 18:54:14 2000
