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I just installed sarge the base system and then changed the apt/sources.list and did apt-get update dist-upgrade which went fine.
Now on apt-get upgrade or apt-get install resolvconf or any package for that mater I get the following packages have unmet dependencies:
Libx11-6: denpends: x11-common (> 4.3.0) but it is not installed
Xfree86-common: depends: x11-common but it is not installed
E: Unmet dependencies., Try using –f
but even apt-get –f install does not fix this.
Why did this happen? And how to fix it or avoid it next time? I mean I have a very basic system with out much packages installed at all, it asked during the upgrade whether I want to upgrade the libc or something like this and I said yes.
The question that ask you Dead Parrot is also important 'cuase we can't know what repositories you're using, sarge/stable, etch/testing or sid/unstable?
So you've dist-upgraded from stable to testing. Personally, I would have done the dist-upgrade right after installing the base system. Now you have to deal with x-window-system upgrade. Debian stable has XFree86 while testing has X.org and your problem seems to be related to this upgrade. I'd suggest that you should try "aptitude install x-window-system" (you can replace aptitude with apt-get if you prefer that) -- this should ensure that you'll get X.org.
I redone the whole thing again, i.e. install Sarge, update and upgrade, rewritten the sources.list, update dist-upgrade with the new sources.list being
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ testing main contrib non-free
deb http://secure-testing.debian.net/debian-secure-testing testing/security-updates main contrib non-free
now after I did the dist-upgrade, I did update and upgrade again to make sure all is up to date and I am getting
W:GPG error: http://secure-testing.debian.net/debian-secure-testing testing/security-updates Releases:
The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 94xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
W: YOu may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems.
If I get a message like "The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX", I fix the problem with these commands:
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