Apt-get problem ?

[Matt Cahill]

Monday, October 4, 2004, 11:45:53 AM, you wrote:

JT> I have attempted to install several programs using kpacakge and been
JT> unsuccessful. I get this error message;

JT> <pt-get install --yes 'gimp-help-common' ;echo RESULT=$?
JT> Reading Package Lists... Done
JT> Building Dependency Tree... Done
JT> You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these:
JT> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
JT>   kdelibs4: Depends: kdelibs-data (>= 4:3.3.0) but 4:3.2.2-2 is to be
JT> installed
JT> E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a
JT> solution).
JT> RESULT=100

JT> I the try # apt-get -f install, which produces this message;

JT> Reading Package Lists... Done
JT> Building Dependency Tree... Done
JT> Correcting dependencies... Done
JT> The following extra packages will be installed:
JT>   kdelibs-data
JT> The following packages will be upgraded:
JT>   kdelibs-data
JT> 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 766 not upgraded.
JT> 17 not fully installed or removed.
JT> Need to get 0B/7058kB of archives.
JT> After unpacking 1581kB of additional disk space will be used.
JT> Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
JT> (Reading database ... 94304 files and directories currently installed.)
JT> Preparing to replace kdelibs-data 4:3.2.2-2 
JT> (using .../kdelibs-data_4%3a3.3.0-2_all.deb) ...
JT> Unpacking replacement kdelibs-data ...
JT> Replacing files in old package korganizer ...
JT> Replacing files in old package kcontrol ...
JT> dpkg: error 
JT> processing
JT> /var/cache/apt/archives/kdelibs-data_4%3a3.3.0-2_all.deb 
JT> (--unpack):
JT>  trying to overwrite
JT> `/usr/share/mimelnk/audio/x-ms-wma.desktop', which is 
JT> also in package kmplayer
JT> dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
JT> Errors were encountered while processing:
JT>  /var/cache/apt/archives/kdelibs-data_4%3a3.3.0-2_all.deb
JT> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
JT> root at 0[jimt]#
 
JT> In the original command an older version of the library is to be installed.
JT> The apt-get -f install command appears to be updating the library. I don't
JT> understand the error or the error code and does this happen when trying to
JT> overwrite `/usr/share/mimelnk/audio/x-ms-wma.desktop' ?

JT> Any help would be appreciated.
JT> Thanks
JT> Jim

Not that I'm a master of apt-get or anything, but on the surface it
looks like it's saying that a package required (kdelibs-data) is part
of KDE 3.3, whereas you don't have the original pre-3.3 package
(3.2.2-2) installed. To this end, what version of KDE are you running?

Also, it's a bit odd that 'gimp-help-common' would require elements
from KDE 3.3 - is this version of 'gimp-help-common' the same as your
other 'gimp' packages?

Matt


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