On Fri, 23 Sep 2005, Richard Harke wrote:
I thought it might be a good idea to update firefox. So I did:
apt-get update
apt-get -s install mozilla-firefox
I get a rather long list of packages to be updated, installed
and even removed. But also I get the message;
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
I have done a lot of googling and all the sites I have found agree
that this can cause "bad things to happen" But nothing more specific
or any other way to proceed. My only ext2 file system is /boot so maybe
my odds are better?? But one site indicated that this message is the
result of a bug in the dependencies. If that was so, maybe I could just wait
until it is fixed at Debian.
Does anybody understand this and can guide me?
Richard Harke
I got the same message just a few days ago when I tried to update a
system running Testing. I hadn't updated it since February, and it wanted
hundreds of packages, but I got this error whether I used apt-get upgrade,
apt-get dist-upgrade, aptitude upgrade or aptitude dist-upgrade. I decided
to wait and hope the error goes away.
The system probably has firefox installed.
Chris
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