On (12/06/03 10:01), Andrew A. Raines wrote: > Unfortunately, I didn't find chapters 5 & 6 of the Debian > Reference Manual before I tried to upgrade my machine from a 3.0 > instal to testing. Now I'm having problems. Although, I've done > `apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade' before and it's worked > great. Maybe APT's been reworked since I did that. > > My problem is that whenever I enter tasksel to install X and > Gnome, it bombs out with: > > ,---- > | Reading Package Lists... Done > | Building Dependency Tree... Done > | Sorry, imlib-base is already the newest version. > | Sorry, x-window-system-core is already the newest version. > | Sorry, menu is already the newest version. > | Sorry, x-window-system is already the newest version. > | 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. > | The following information may help to resolve the situation: > | > | Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: > | gnome-utils: Depends: libgal19 (>= 0.19) but it is not installable > | kdebase-audiolibs: Depends: libvorbis0 (>= 1.0rc3-1) but it is not installable > | E: Sorry, broken packages > `---- > > I can install (using apt) other packages without complicated > dependencies, so I don't think my whole database is fried. > Trying to remove packages and apt-get update'ing multiple times > has proved useless. > > How can I recover? Should I downgrade to stable and try > upgrading the right way? The manual suggested that could cause > more problems. > You could try recovering using deslect; it prompts you for dependancies but be careful that you don't ask it to uninstall software you want to keep.
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