On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Gregory Guthrie wrote: > I am running Debian 2.0, upgraded from ... (libc5), and trying to upgrade > to 2.1. > > When I do an apt-get upgrade, it complains that: > "Sorry, but the following packages are broken.." > > and halts. When I try to repair the problems using dselect, I cannot seem > to get out of a circle which won't let me remove the broken ones, nor > configure them, due to dependencies. Probably there is some correctness to > what it reports, but it feels like I am "stuck in a maze of twisty-truney > passages, which all look alike"! :-) > > It all seems to start with libpam-util; Details attached. > Any help is greatly appreciated.
Hi Greg, good to hear from you. When I've run into these types of problems, I usually have to use dpkg manually to force the updates. You'll have to be careful that you don't totally mess-up the system by making sure you have the update required packages as deb files. apt-get stores the downloaded deb files in /var/cache/apt/archives/. You can then use a combination of "dpkg --force --remove" and "dpkg --force --install" to update your system. Executing dpkg on multiple files at the smae time also helps. If you need more specifics, please ask. -- Jean Pierre
