How do I get out of package hell? In trying to install Enlightenment on my Debian/Corel machine, I've got myself trapped in all sorts of loops where apt-get, dselect and dpkg all refuse to install any of the things I need because they can't install other things that those things depend on.
I've somehow managed to get my X Server uninstalled, and I can't reinstall it. I get several screens of errors about things that it can't install, and I can't find any way of piping this output to less or anything so I can see all the errors. The ones I can see say, for example, that things can't be installed because they depend on xfree86-common, which it doesn't get up to installing, because of these errors that come up first. I've tried everything I can think of. Just now, for example, I told dselect to remove everything. Then I told it to install xfree86-common. It complains it can't because "cannot open help file '/usr/share/doc/xfree-86common/.dhelp'" I've tried apt-get update followed by apt-get upgrade, but I just get the same errors. I thought this whole package thing was supposed to make this stuff easier. This makes windows look like something well organised. Heeeelp!
