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I have problems with apt-get here is what happens, any ideas ?

Code:

apt-get install lingoteach || apt-get -f install

Reading Package Lists... Done

Building Dependency Tree... Done

Note, selecting lingoteach-ui instead of lingoteach

You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:

  lingoteach-ui: Depends: liblingoteach4 but it is not going to be installed

  udev: Depends: initscripts (>= 2.85-16) but it is not going to be installed

E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).

Reading Package Lists... Done

Building Dependency Tree... Done

Correcting dependencies... Done

The following extra packages will be installed:

  initscripts

The following NEW packages will be installed:

  initscripts

0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 132 not upgraded.

191 not fully installed or removed.

Need to get 0B/30.5kB of archives.

After unpacking 246kB of additional disk space will be used.

Do you want to continue? [Y/n]

(Reading database ... 129255 files and directories currently installed.)

Unpacking initscripts (from .../initscripts_2.86.ds1-1_i386.deb) ...

dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/initscripts_2.86.ds1-1_i386.deb (--unpack):

 trying to overwrite `/etc/init.d/checkroot.sh', which is also in package sysvinit

Errors were encountered while processing:

 /var/cache/apt/archives/initscripts_2.86.ds1-1_i386.deb

E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Quote:

any ideas?

Yes.

hth --Jonas

By the way, I have something helpful for you:
google.search("smart questions", lucky=True)

It links to `Smart Bug Reports' and `yes-or-no-questions'. Read all three.

I sincerely hope *this* helps :)

--Jonas

Sorry for posting with too little details.

I have Knoppix 3.9 installed on my PC.
It was working fine and I have not changed anything to do with apt-get or anything else apart from time.

However I can not use apt-get at all. I get

Code:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:

  lingoteach-ui: Depends: liblingoteach4 but it is not going to be installed

  udev: Depends: initscripts (>= 2.85-16) but it is not going to be installed

E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).

If I try this I get

Code:

apt-get -f install

Reading Package Lists... Done

Building Dependency Tree... Done

Correcting dependencies... Done

The following extra packages will be installed:

  initscripts

The following NEW packages will be installed:

  initscripts

0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 132 not upgraded.

191 not fully installed or removed.

Need to get 0B/30.5kB of archives.

After unpacking 246kB of additional disk space will be used.

Do you want to continue? [Y/n]

(Reading database ... 129255 files and directories currently installed.)

Unpacking initscripts (from .../initscripts_2.86.ds1-1_i386.deb) ...

dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/initscripts_2.86.ds1-1_i386.deb (--unpack):

 trying to overwrite `/etc/init.d/checkroot.sh', which is also in package sysvinit

Errors were encountered while processing:

 /var/cache/apt/archives/initscripts_2.86.ds1-1_i386.deb

E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Has anyone ever seen this before ? More importantly how do I fix it. I have searched on the internet but without success.