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Ive removed openoffice and adobe pdf reader and now i get the following problem, anyone got any ideas?
Code:
eeepc-john:/root> apt-get install xpdf
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:
cupsys: Depends: poppler-utils or
xpdf-utils
xpdf: Depends: xpdf-reader (= 3.01-9) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: xpdf-utils (= 3.01-9)
Depends: xpdf-common (= 3.01-9) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).
eeepc-john:/root> apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
poppler-utils
The following packages will be REMOVED:
asus-ooo-writer
The following NEW packages will be installed:
poppler-utils
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 1 to remove and 13 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/80.7kB of archives.
After unpacking 61.1MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
poppler-utils
Install these packages without verification [y/N]? y
(Reading database ... 68723 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing asus-ooo-writer ...
dpkg-divert: mismatch on divert-to
when removing `diversion of /usr/share/applications/ooo-writer.desktop to /usr/share/applications/ooo-writer.desktop-orig by asus-ooo-writer'
found `diversion of /usr/share/applications/ooo-writer.desktop to /usr/share/applications/ooo-writer.desktop.orig by asus-ooo-writer'
dpkg: error processing asus-ooo-writer (--remove):
subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
asus-ooo-writer
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
eeepc-john:/root>
Distribution: OpenSUSE11.1 and Windows XP on desktop, OpenSuse 11.2 on Eee PC
Posts: 12
Rep:
Debian dependencies
Instead of apt, try the aptitude utility. Type in your terminal "aptitude install xpdf", without the quotation marks. Aptitude resolves all dependencies for you. It is like a meta version of apt.
Note: if aptitude is not installed on your system, you can get it by using apt-get install aptitude.
Good luck.
I gather you're using an eeePC. If you only have Asus' repositories in your sources.list file, that might be the problem. Wikipedia says you can just add a debian repo but this eeePC user forum[1] thread suggests xandros4 repos are better to use (in terms of compatibility).
If you're still running the OS that came with your eeePC, you might get better answers if you mention that sort of thing. It's not clear you are even running Debian here. The forum I linked to might be a good place to find eeePC-specific answers too.
[1] I haven't the foggiest if it's at all "official" or not, but it seems well-trafficked
I gather you're using an eeePC. If you only have Asus' repositories in your sources.list file, that might be the problem. Wikipedia says you can just add a debian repo but this eeePC user forum[1] thread suggests xandros4 repos are better to use (in terms of compatibility).
If you're still running the OS that came with your eeePC, you might get better answers if you mention that sort of thing. It's not clear you are even running Debian here. The forum I linked to might be a good place to find eeePC-specific answers too.
[1] I haven't the foggiest if it's at all "official" or not, but it seems well-trafficked
I'm using the Xandros repo
I have asked on the EEE fourms but no replys for weeks so I asked here
You can always try dpkg --force-remove-reinstreq asus-ooo-writer to see if forcing it will work followed by a dpkg --configure -a to make sure there were no unconfigured packages left when the error occurred.
home/user> sudo dpkg --force-remove-reinstreq asus-ooo-writer
dpkg: need an action option
Type dpkg --help for help about installing and deinstalling packages[*];
Use `dselect' or `aptitude' for user-friendly package management;
Type dpkg -Dhelp for a list of dpkg debug flag values;
Type dpkg --force-help for a list of forcing options;
Type dpkg-deb --help for help about manipulating *.deb files;
Type dpkg --license for copyright license and lack of warranty (GNU GPL)[*].
Options marked[*] produce a lot of output - pipe it through `less' or `more' !
/home/user>
home/user> sudo dpkg --force-remove-reinstreq asus-ooo-writer
dpkg: need an action option
Type dpkg --help for help about installing and deinstalling packages[*];
Use `dselect' or `aptitude' for user-friendly package management;
Type dpkg -Dhelp for a list of dpkg debug flag values;
Type dpkg --force-help for a list of forcing options;
Type dpkg-deb --help for help about manipulating *.deb files;
Type dpkg --license for copyright license and lack of warranty (GNU GPL)[*].
Options marked[*] produce a lot of output - pipe it through `less' or `more' !
/home/user>
Opps left out the remove part of it so dpkg -r --force-remove-reinstreq asus-ooo-writer or dpkg -P --force-remove-reinstreq asus-ooo-writer if you want the configuration files removed as well.
Distribution: OpenSUSE11.1 and Windows XP on desktop, OpenSuse 11.2 on Eee PC
Posts: 12
Rep:
Sorry. Didn't realize you were using the ASUS EEE, thought you were in Debian Etch or Ubuntu or something similar with Debian repositories. If you can get aptitude to work at some point, though, it is a sweet package manager.
Cheers.
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