On Friday 12 March 2004 20:49, Christian Guggenberger wrote: [snip] > > in the meantime, do a: > > $ apt-get -f install > $ dpkg -r --force-depends libxft-dev > $ apt-get -f install > > and probably a: > $ apt-get install libxft-dev > > - Christian
"apt-get -f install" will uninstall any packages which depended on libxft-dev, which is probably not desireable. I used the following: $ dpkg -r --force-depends libxft-dev $ apt-get -f install libxft-dev=2.1.2-6 This forces dpkg to remove the pkg in spite of dependencies, then it asks apt-get to try to fix the broken dependencies by using libxft-dev version 2.1.2-6. Note that this will only work if the only problems that apt knows of are dependencies on missing libxft-dev (i.e. the package system was in a consistent state before trying to upgrade libxft-dev). ...Marvin
