apt-get problem

[David J Patrick]

Kareem Shehata wrote:

>On Fri, 2003-10-31 at 11:11, David J Patrick wrote:
>  
>
>>Thing were going great with my (knoppix installed) debian testing/ 
>>unstable system untill recently,
>>when apt-get began to choke on knx-alsa.
>>Now I run into apt-get errors that I'm not sure how to fix.
>>
>>any such operation (CLI or Kpackage) terminates with;
>>
>>...
>>Unpacking alsa-utils (from .../alsa-utils_0.9.6-1_i386.deb) ...
>>dpkg: error processing 
>>/var/cache/apt/archives/alsa-utils_0.9.6-1_i386.deb (--unpack):
>> trying to overwrite `/usr/bin/alsamixer', which is also in package knx-alsa
>>dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
>>Errors were encountered while processing:
>> /var/cache/apt/archives/alsa-utils_0.9.6-1_i386.deb
>>E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>>
>>error messages suggest "apt-get -f install", but that doesn't help.
>>I've tried "apt-get dist-upgrade" and "apt-get remove knx-*" without 
>>success.
>>I.ve tried renaming `/usr/bin/alsamixer' (no-go) and now I'm stumped.
>>
>>should I go into /var/cache/apt/archives/ and nuke offending entries ?
>>
>>ideas ?
>>
>>thanks,
>>djp
>>    
>>
>
>Hmmmm... from where I am, I can only really state the obvious and hope
>to catch something you may have missed.  Apologies in advance if I'm
>insulting anyones intelligence.
>
>It sounds like knx-alsa conflicts with the main alsa packages.  Dumb
>question: did you try "apt-get remove knx-alsa" or "apt-get remove
>knx-*"? 
>
yes;
:/mnt/hda8/djp# apt-get remove knx-alsa
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  alsa-base: Depends: alsa-utils but it is not going to be installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or 
specify a solution).

> So far as I know, the latter won't work.  If the former, what
>messages do you get?  Have you tried "apt-get check"?
>  
>
root at PIII500:/mnt/hda8/djp# apt-get check
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  alsa-base: Depends: alsa-utils but it is not installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.

>Kareem
>
>  
>
thanks Kareem,
djp

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