I've sorted it out. I changed stable to woody in /etc/apt/sources.list and did an upgrade and all went well.
Now to get pine installed! At 10 Jun 2002 09:56:47 +1000, Timothy Bateman wrote: > I've just installed Debian Woody for PowerPC and I have some dependency > problems with apt-get. After the base install, when Debian booted I > selected a fairly minimal set to just get the machine up and going, such > as C/C++ so I can rebuild a kernel and XWindow System. > > I used mirror.cse.unsw.edu.au as my source and when apt-get had received > all of the packages, it goes to install and then hits an error like > this: > > libopenldap-runtime 1_3a1.2.12-1 > error processing libopenldap-runtime 1_3a1.2.12-1 > trying to overwrite ldapsearchprefs which is also in libldap2 > > (I can't get the exact message because hardly any programs are > installed, no ftp etc) Angus Lees replied: > looking at my woody (i386) system here, i can't see any packages that > depend on libopenldap-runtime, other than libopenldap1 and then > nothing depends on that. > why are you installing libopenldap-runtime at all? > (if you wanted to install ldap stuff, you should be using the openldap > version 2 packages "slapd" and "ldap-utils", rather than the version > 1.2 "openldap*" packages) > try some magic like: > apt-get install libldap2 libopenldap-runtime- # <- note trailing - > to install something and remove something else in one go. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
