On Fri, 06 Jun 2003 12:34:28 -0600 Harshwardhan Nagaonkar wrote:<snip>
Hello all,
I have been trying to upgrade a testing system for about 2 weeks now.
<snip>The problem went away when I uninstalled kdebase-audiolibs. You'll lose packages kde (virtual, no harm done) and kdebase-dev (development, not needed for kde usage).
I read the bug report. It was interesting, but I only saw your bug filed, I couldn't see the solution if it was there. If I did miss it, please forgive my inability to see and post it here please. Here is what I did by interpreting what you said about removing kdebase-audiolibs...
I tried to uninstall kdebase-audiolibs with #apt-get remove kdebase-audiolibs , but it gave the following error:
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# apt-get remove kdebase-audiolibs
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that the package is simply not installable and a bug report against that package should be filed. The following information may help to resolve the situation:
Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
kde: Depends: kdebase-audiolibs but it is not going to be installed or
kdebase3-audiolibs but it is not installable
E: Sorry, broken packages
***********************************************************************Then I tried many combinations of forcing it to do it like apt-get remove -m kdebase-audiolibs, but to no avail.
Then I read up some more in $man apt-get and it suggested manually uninstalling using dpkg in extreme cases. So I used dpkg, but it would not let me do it right away. So I used dpkg with forcing :
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#dpkg --remove --force-all kdebase-audiolibs
dpkg: kdebase-audiolibs: dependency problems, but removing anyway as you request:
kde depends on kdebase-audiolibs | kdebase3-audiolibs; however:
Package kdebase-audiolibs is to be removed.
Package kdebase3-audiolibs is not installed.
(Reading database ... 76702 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing kdebase-audiolibs ...
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Then when I try to an apt-get dist-upgrade, it installs kdebase-audiolibs again and nothing else!!!
What is the command/route that you used to get rid of kdebase-audiolibs in such a way as to solve the problem (apt-get remove -fm, dpkg --force etc....) ? And once you got it to uninstall, which command fixed things back to normal?
I really appreciate the prompt response.
-- Harshwardhan Nagaonkar Electrical Engineering Sysop Brigham Young University, UT-84602
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