On Sat, 11 Feb 2012 23:35:27 -0500, Mitchell Laks wrote: > I recently upgraded a laptop using sid and then did upgrade and dist > upgrade and i got into a terrible pickle > where it could not upgrade and kept telling me certain packages were not > able to be installed ... secondary to messages such as > > so if i do apt-get install -f > > i get the message > > Reading package lists... > Building dependency tree... > Reading state information... > Correcting dependencies... failed. > The following packages have unmet dependencies: > bluez-alsa: Depends: libasound2 (> 1.0.24.1)
(...) > E: Error pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks. this may be > caused by hel d packages > E: Unable to correct dependencies. > > Any way to resolve this short of a reinstall? How about checking if the reports are telling you the right, that is, if they're right? (e.g., check what's the current version of libasound2 "dpkg -l | grep -i libasound2"). > I have tried to make a script with all those packages to the left of > Depends an d do > apt-get remove <all those packages> That sounds too dangerous :-( > but each time I do that the list grows exponentially in length. Is there > another apt-get > magic incantation or else > Is there a way to cut back to a small size and build up again? You can also give it a whirl to "aptitude", it is very good when you have to deal with this sort of mess. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/jh8jvs$9kl$4...@dough.gmane.org
