apt problems (?)

[David J Patrick]

and now I've got a jammed up apt-get !
    I've been here before, and been forced to re-install the works
There must be a better way !

root-FHL3x92oaS0 at public.gmane.org:/mnt/hda8/djp# apt-get upgrade     
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:
  libarts1-mpeglib: Depends: libxv1 but it is not installed
  libarts1-xine: Depends: libxv1 but it is not installed
  mpeglib: Depends: libxv1 but it is not installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.

and so it stops ! apt-get -f install does not work for me ! sigh..
clues ? thanks,
djp
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