On 2020-07-13 at 17:16, Paul Gerken wrote: > Hi User, > > apt-get install cups cups-client "foomatic-db*" > > fails with foomatic-db-compressed-ppds : Conflicts: foomatic-db Breaks: > foomatic-db > > Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
That appears to be because it's not supposed to be possible to install both of these two packages side-by-side. They apparently both provide files that satisfy the same requirement, such that having both of them present on the same running system wouldn't make sense. You'll need to narrow down your list of packages to be installed, by not using the wildcard. The list of package which that wildcard pattern would match can be identified in a number of ways, but I just did it by the following: $ apt-cache search foomatic | grep ^foomatic (I'd expect 'apt-cache search ^foomatic' to do it, but apparently that also matches the cups-filters package. I don't care enough to investigate why at the moment.) > How do I go about reporting this problem? w/o email on target Kali > linux machine? I did write out a fairly lengthy, step-by-step answer to this, but I think the answer had started to become condescending and generally unproductive, so I'm not going to include it here. The short answer is that when you cancel an otherwise-complete bug report from the 'reportbug' program, it saves the result into a file, and you can take that file to another machine and (with a little work) turn it into an E-mail that can be sent from there. I use a similar method on my own computer, since although I do have the ability to send E-mail from here, I can't do it from the command line or via reportbug. I suspect I don't have a working SMTP configuration defined anywhere those mail systems know how to access. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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