On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 07:03:39PM -0700, Marc Wilson wrote: > On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 04:19:48PM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > > apt-get -f remove cbb > > fails, apparently because of all the problems > > arising from being in mid-X11 transition (lots of unmet dependencies). > > Don't use apt-get to fix the problem. Apt-get doesn't allow broken > dependencies... and if you pass -f, *what you specify on the command line > is expected to be the solution to the problem*. > > So you told it to remove cbb, removing cbb didn't fix the indeterminate > state, apt-get told you so. > > Use dpkg to remove the cbb package. > Thanks; that did the trick. I used dpkg -P to get rid of cbb and 2 other packages (xext, guitar) that had similar problems.
Joey Hess documented this general problem and solution in the "x11-common installation" section of http://wiki.debian.org/Xorg69To7. As directed there, I'll file a bug against x11-common noting that it needs to conflict with these packages. Ross -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
