apt-get problem

[Peter]

On Sat, 17 Dec 2005, Herb Richter wrote:

> I have a problem with one computer running knoppix(4.0)/dedian.
>
> While preparing to install a driver for a HP printer as per HP's
> instructions(?) on hpinkjet.sourceforge.net,  an apt-get install ___
> failed but went on to remove a *lot* of files including all/most of KDE.
>
> Now I am unable to install / remove *any* packages using either apt-get or
> aptitude.  Both seem to get hung trying to remove "kdebluetooth" :

This has happened to me too. I do not know why it happened (Knoppix 3.4 
and 3.7). I believe that the reason is, that the Knoppix preparers used 
a very different set of sources for making their distribution, from what 
is available now on the internet. This causes most apt-related 
operations to attmept to 'catch up', trying to load the equivalent of a 
few years of updates, and then it gets stuck because there was a major 
and incompatible library upgrade in between. Knoppix came with gcc-3.3.3 
and I had to upgrade it to 3.3.6 to use some packages I need. I had to 
do it by hand (afaik you cannot upgrade gcc and glibc using apt across 
such a large version bump).

Peter
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