moin, moin, originally I was dist-upgrading a woody box to today's woody.
I'm running into dependency probs between libqt2 and kde-designer, even though kde-designer isn't installed. fs:/home/lufthans# apt-get install dpkg 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: libmimelib1: libqt2: Conflicts: kde-designer (< 2.2.3-4) E: Sorry, broken packages fs:/home/lufthans# apt-get remove kde-designer Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Package kde-designer is not installed, so not removed 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 125 not upgraded. fs:/home/lufthans# dpkg -l kde-designer Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: |uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description +++-==============-==============-============================================ un kde-designer <none> (no description available) Why would conflicting with a package that's not installed be a problem? Maybe even more important: why would dpkg depend somehow on libqt2? Especially when dpkg has no depends. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache show dpkg | grep Depends Pre-Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.3-7), libncurses5 (>= 5.2.20010310-1), libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 (>= 1:2.95.4-0.010810) Pre-Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.3-1), libncurses5 (>= 5.2.20010310-1), libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 Pre-Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1.2), libncurses5, libstdc++2.10 Any ideas on how to break this vicious circle? ciao, der.hans -- # [EMAIL PROTECTED] home.pages.de/~lufthans/ www.DevelopOnline.com # Help Jerry Lewis stamp out M$...oops that's MDA - der.hans
