On Saturday 18 February 2006 15:08, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > On 2/18/06, David Jarvie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm running Etch. For a few weeks now, whenever I do my regular (more > > than once a week) 'aptitude dist-upgrade', I get messages about unmet > > dependencies. The original ones were about libpaper1 and libpaper-utils, > > but > > in the last week or so more have started appearing each time. I'm > > surprised > > that these haven't been fixed quickly. Does anybody know what is the > > reason > > for these errors? > > > > The following packages have unmet dependencies: > > libpaperg: Depends: libpaper1 (= 1.1.14-3) but 1.1.14-5 is to be > > installed. > > Depends: libpaper-utils (= 1.1.14-3) but 1.1.14-5 is to be > > installed. > > python2.3-glade2: Depends: python2.3-gtk2 (= 2.6.3-2) but 2.8.2-3 is > > installed. > > dbus-glib-1: Depends: dbus-1 (>= 0.23.4) but it is not installable > > libhal0: Depends: dbus-1 (>= 0.23.4) but it is not installable > > libhal-storage0: Depends: dbus-1 (>= 0.23.4) but it is not installable > > dbus-qt-1-dev: Depends: dbus-qt-1c2 (= 0.23.4-8) but it is not > > installable > > Depends: dbus-1-dev (= 0.23.4-8) but it is not > > installable > > I had a similar experience 3 or 4 weeks ago (I do weekly updates with > aptitude). Aptitude reported that several packages - a list similar to > that above - were broken. I followed the broken dependencies and fixed > them one by one (using 'b' in aptitude to find each broken package, and > then examining each one for what was missing and installing it). As I > recall, it took a couple of passes to get everything back in order, but I > haven't had the problem since. Of course, all that should not be necessary > - but at least it worked, for me at least.
Aptitude didn't show any broken packages for me. But I tried marking one of two of the packages as automatically installed, and that allowed aptitude to resolve the errors. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. -- David Jarvie. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
