I don't know how best to proceed without doing more damage. I just recently tried and apt-get upgrade and ran into the following:
apt-get upgrade Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these. The following packages have unmet dependencies: mjpegtools : Depends: liblavfile-2.0-0 but it is not installed Depends: liblavjpeg-2.0-0 but it is not installed Depends: liblavplay-2.0-0 but it is not installed Depends: libmjpegutils-2.0-0 but it is not installed Depends: libmpeg2encpp-2.0-0 but it is not installed Depends: libmplex2-2.0-0 but it is not installed Then: phobos:/home/nick# apt-get -f install Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Correcting dependencies... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: libdns81 libgoffice-0.8-8 libgoffice-0.8-8-common libisc83 liblapack3gf Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. The following extra packages will be installed: liblavfile-2.0-0 liblavjpeg-2.0-0 liblavplay-2.0-0 libmjpegutils-2.0-0 libmpeg2encpp-2.0-0 libmplex2-2.0-0 The following NEW packages will be installed: liblavfile-2.0-0 liblavjpeg-2.0-0 liblavplay-2.0-0 libmjpegutils-2.0-0 libmpeg2encpp-2.0-0 libmplex2-2.0-0 0 upgraded, 6 newly installed, 0 to remove and 270 not upgraded. 108 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0 B/280 kB of archives. After this operation, 745 kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? dpkg: warning: parsing file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 502642 package 'cnews': error in Version string 'cr.g7-40.4': version number does not start with digit (Reading database ... 186047 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking libmjpegutils-2.0-0 (from .../libmjpegutils-2.0-0_1%3a2.0.0+debian-2_i386.deb) ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libmjpegutils-2.0-0_1%3a2.0.0+debian-2_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libmjpegutils-2.0.so.0.0.0', which is also in package libmjpegtools-2.0-0:i386 1:2.0.0-dmo1 Unpacking liblavfile-2.0-0 (from .../liblavfile-2.0-0_1%3a2.0.0+debian-2_i386.deb) ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/liblavfile-2.0-0_1%3a2.0.0+debian-2_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/liblavfile-2.0.so.0.0.0', which is also in package libmjpegtools-2.0-0:i386 1:2.0.0-dmo1 Unpacking liblavjpeg-2.0-0 (from .../liblavjpeg-2.0-0_1%3a2.0.0+debian-2_i386.deb) ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/liblavjpeg-2.0-0_1%3a2.0.0+debian-2_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/liblavjpeg-2.0.so.0.0.0', which is also in package libmjpegtools-2.0-0:i386 1:2.0.0-dmo1 Unpacking liblavplay-2.0-0 (from .../liblavplay-2.0-0_1%3a2.0.0+debian-2_i386.deb) ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/liblavplay-2.0-0_1%3a2.0.0+debian-2_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/liblavplay-2.0.so.0.0.0', which is also in package libmjpegtools-2.0-0:i386 1:2.0.0-dmo1 Unpacking libmpeg2encpp-2.0-0 (from .../libmpeg2encpp-2.0-0_1%3a2.0.0+debian-2_i386.deb) ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libmpeg2encpp-2.0-0_1%3a2.0.0+debian-2_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libmpeg2encpp-2.0.so.0.0.0', which is also in package libmjpegtools-2.0-0:i386 1:2.0.0-dmo1 Unpacking libmplex2-2.0-0 (from .../libmplex2-2.0-0_1%3a2.0.0+debian-2_i386.deb) ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libmplex2-2.0-0_1%3a2.0.0+debian-2_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libmplex2-2.0.so.0.0.0', which is also in package libmjpegtools-2.0-0:i386 1:2.0.0-dmo1 Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/libmjpegutils-2.0-0_1%3a2.0.0+debian-2_i386.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/liblavfile-2.0-0_1%3a2.0.0+debian-2_i386.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/liblavjpeg-2.0-0_1%3a2.0.0+debian-2_i386.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/liblavplay-2.0-0_1%3a2.0.0+debian-2_i386.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/libmpeg2encpp-2.0-0_1%3a2.0.0+debian-2_i386.deb /var/cache/apt/archives/libmplex2-2.0-0_1%3a2.0.0+debian-2_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) The initial error on the first attempt was the version string errors. I know sid in kinda crazy right now but what's the best way to proceed? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130517002724.GB11767@phobos