Dependancy Hell

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 10:50:54AM -0500, Vince Fry wrote:
> I've tried Googling this problem, to no avail.
> 
> I'm trying to run apt-get upgrade, and everything runs super great until it hits openoffice.org-bin and openoffice.org-debian-files. Here's the output:
> 
> Setting up openoffice.org-bin (1.1.3-4) ...
> Undoing prelinking of OpenOffice.org binaries... run-parts: /usr/share/openoffice.org-debian-files/hooks/postinst.d/prelink exited with return code 1
> dpkg: error processing openoffice.org-bin (--configure):
>  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of openoffice.org-debian-files:
>  openoffice.org-debian-files depends on openoffice.org-bin (>> 1.1.2+1.1.3); however:
>   Package openoffice.org-bin is not configured yet.
> dpkg: error processing openoffice.org-debian-files (--configure):
>  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  openoffice.org-bin
>  openoffice.org-debian-files
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> 
> 
> I've tried dpkg --configure -a, and apt-get -f install, also unsuccessfully. 
> 
> Any suggestions??

Is prelink installed?  It almost looks like the config for -bin fails
due to prelink problem.  You could always just purge openoffice and then
reinstall it again.

I tend to use apt-get -u dist-upgrade instead of upgrade.  Never really
have figured out what the difference is.

Lennart Sorensen
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