John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > John Smith wrote: > > >>1. How can I continue with the upgrade, ignoring these dependencies? > >>Large numbers of updates remain unconfigured, and I cannot get the > >>system to ignore the problems and pass onto the rest. > >>2. There is a dangerously unstable package - imhangul - > >>half-installed. I am unable to install (as suggested by dpkg) nor can > >>I remove. Which command can be tried? I have tried dpkg variants of > >>-i, --ignore-depends, --reconfigure, --configure --pending, and > >>apt-get remove > >>3. Should I forget the Srage version, and simply reconfigure the > >>apt,sources for unstable, and dist-upgrade using aptitude from that? > >> > >>Brian > >> > >> > >> > > > >Hi Brian, > > > > I had this a couple of times (I'm using Sarge for about half > >a year) while updating/upgrading reguarly. In my experience there is > >usually 1 package which causes this. By doing a apt-get -f install \ > >package, (-f == force) you can usually force your way through this, > >although the last time I did this, I had to force a sid package in. > > > > > -f, --fix-broken > > This should fix it, but in my experience doesn't always > apt-get -f install > > Your could also try > apt-get -f install imhangul- > > Note the minus sign at the end of the package name.
Many thanks for the advice - sadly, the apt-get -f option was one of the first I tried. adding the "-" had the same result. $locate imhangul found the /var/cache/apt archives of a i386.deb for imhangul ..... but it seemed to remain unrecognized. Deleting all references to imhangul in other directories (rm -R ...) and $locate imhangul again showed these files as if they were present on the disk, but cd into the repository and there isnothing there. dpkg, dselect, aptitude - all find imhangul but fail to install it. dpkg stubbornly tells me that the archive is not found, and I am unable to download it from the repository .... it almost makes me long for M$ simplicity, but then I have a coffee and all seems better. When I changed the apt.sources to unstable and tried to update/upgrade, it all hung on imhangul .... and I don't even need or want the Korean language support ..... Any more ideas? Something simple along the ideas of dpkg --configure --pending? I like a simple life .... All the best Brian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
