apt-get problem

Kareem Shehata kareem-d+8TeBu5bOew5LPnMra/2Q at public.gmane.org
Fri Oct 31 18:30:26 UTC 2003


On Fri, 2003-10-31 at 11:36, David J Patrick wrote:
> :/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).

Hmmm... it seems the dependency check causes dpkg to fail no matter
what.  Try "apt-get -f remove knx-alsa" to dump the old package, or try
"apt-get remove alsa-base knx-alsa" to get rid of both.

> 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.

Yup, it's definitely not liking the failed dependency.  On the lighter
side, give "apt-get moo" a shot.

Cheers!

Kareem

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