On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 07:54:20 -0500, John Fleming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On my unstable box, I have been upgrading, but not dist-upgrading. Just now > I tried to do this and now have problems. I updated first, then a regular > upgrade, and then the dist-upgrade. There were still some unmet > dependencies, which I tried to install separaately. Then it suggested I use > the -f option, so I tried that with upgrade and dist-upgrade. I am still > left with this error: > > Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org unstable/main Packages > Hit http://ftp.us.debian.org unstable/main Release > Reading Package Lists... Done > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# apt-get upgrade > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these. > The following packages have unmet dependencies: > alsa-base: Depends: alsa-utils (>= 1.0.2-2) but it is not installed > testdisk: Depends: libntfs5 (>= 1.9.0) but it is not installed > E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f. > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# apt-get -f upgrade > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > Correcting dependencies... Done > The following NEW packages will be installed: > alsa-utils libntfs5 > The following packages have been kept back: > cloop-utils frozen-bubble-data libxft2 mknbi pppconfig xlibmesa-dri > 0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 6 not upgraded. > 86 not fully installed or removed. > Need to get 0B/193kB of archives. > After unpacking 561kB of additional disk space will be used. > Do you want to continue? [Y/n] > (Reading database ... 118569 files and directories currently installed.) > Unpacking alsa-utils (from .../alsa-utils_1.0.5-3_i386.deb) ... > dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/alsa-utils_1.0.5-3_i386.deb > (--unpack): > trying to overwrite `/usr/bin/alsamixer', which is also in package knx-alsa > dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) > Unpacking libntfs5 (from .../libntfs5_1.9.0-1_i386.deb) ... > dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libntfs5_1.9.0-1_i386.deb > (--unpack): > trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/libntfs.so.5.0.0', which is also in package > ntfsprogs > dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) > Errors were encountered while processing: > /var/cache/apt/archives/alsa-utils_1.0.5-3_i386.deb > /var/cache/apt/archives/libntfs5_1.9.0-1_i386.deb > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# > > Any help greatly appreciated. - John
It said try apt-get -f install, not apt-get -f upgrade Is your /var full? (look at the output from df). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
