apt-get stuck in a rut

irvken · 10-31-2004, 04:46 AM

Having a bit of a problem with apt-get, wonder if anyone can help me find a way round it?

Code:

evolution: Depends: gnome-icon-theme but it is not going to be installed"

when I try to install evolution

If I try to install the missing package it bombs out with -

Code:

trying to overwrite `/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/blender.png', which is also in package kdebase

and if I try to install anything else -

Code:

apt-get install kernel-image-2.6.8-1-686
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these:
Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
  evolution: Depends: gnome-icon-theme but it is not going to be installed
  kernel-image-2.6.8-1-686: Depends: initrd-tools (>= 0.1.63) but it is not going to be installed
                            Depends: module-init-tools (>= 0.9.13) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).

doing the apt-get -f install/update/fixmissing merry go round seems to have no effect

Newly installed debian woody dist-upgraded to sid, barely any other configuration

basanta · 10-31-2004, 07:51 AM

try following :

#dpkg -i --force-overwrite <packagename>
#dpkg -i --force-overwrite <another packagename>
#dpkg --configure -a

#apt-get -f install

haimeltjnfg · 10-31-2004, 10:00 AM

file a bug report while you are at it too. the developers should know about that error so it can be fixed for other users.

http://bugs.debian.org

irvken · 11-03-2004, 11:55 AM

It is already filed as a bug, quite recently even

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugre...g=269488&msg=2

Couldn't get the dpkg command to work, same sort of errors, in the end I just did

apt-get remove evolution

and that seemd to clear the queue, so that I could install the new kernel-image but that's a whole other nest of problems.

In themeantime how am I going to install Evolution?