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Old 08-25-2005, 06:00 PM   #1
digiplaya
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Question Broken package situation


Hi, it looks like my DEB package system in Knoppix (or the apt-get part of it anyway) is competely ruined.

When I try to apt-get install something, it shows the following error messages:

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root@knoppman:/home/digiplaya# apt-get install gdm
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:
esound: Depends: esound-common (>= 0.2.36-1) but 0.2.35-2.1 is to be installed
gdm: Depends: libselinux1 (>= 1.18) but it is not going to be installed
libesd0: Depends: esound-common (>= 0.2.36-1) but 0.2.35-2.1 is to be installed
libesd0-dev: Depends: esound-common (>= 0.2.36-1) but 0.2.35-2.1 is to be installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).
I've already done the "apt-get -f install", but that produces even more messages.

Anyone know how to rectify this?

thanx

Tom
 
Old 08-27-2005, 05:03 AM   #2
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tell us what these other errors are.
 
Old 08-27-2005, 10:09 PM   #3
digiplaya
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Ok, here's the output in the Konsole when I do the "apt-get -f install":

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root@knoppman:/home/digiplaya# apt-get -f install
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
bzip2 esound-common urlview
Suggested packages:
ncftp2 mimedecode
The following packages will be upgraded:
bzip2 esound-common urlview
3 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 11 not upgraded.
593 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/295kB of archives.
After unpacking 217kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
(Reading database ... 355274 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace bzip2 1.0.2-7 (using .../bzip2_1.0.2-8_i386.deb) ...
/usr/share/doc-base/bzip2: cannot open control file for reading: No such file or directory
dpkg: warning - old pre-removal script returned error exit status 2
dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ...
/usr/share/doc-base/bzip2: cannot open control file for reading: No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/bzip2_1.0.2-8_i386.deb (--unpack):
subprocess new pre-removal script returned error exit status 2
install-info(/usr/share/info/bzip2.info): read < /usr/share/info/bzip2.info: No such file or directory
dpkg: error while cleaning up:
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2
Preparing to replace esound-common 0.2.35-2.1 (using .../esound-common_0.2.36-1_all.deb) ...
/usr/share/doc-base/esound-common: cannot open control file for reading: No such file or directory
dpkg: warning - old pre-removal script returned error exit status 2
dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/esound-common_0.2.36-1_all.deb (--unpack):
there is no script in the new version of the package - giving up
Preparing to replace urlview 0.9-11 (using .../urlview_0.9-15_i386.deb) ...
/usr/share/doc-base/urlview: cannot open control file for reading: No such file or directory
dpkg: warning - old pre-removal script returned error exit status 2
dpkg - trying script from the new package instead ...
/usr/share/doc-base/urlview: cannot open control file for reading: No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/urlview_0.9-15_i386.deb (--unpack):
subprocess new pre-removal script returned error exit status 2
/usr/share/doc-base/urlview: cannot open control file for reading: No such file or directory
dpkg: error while cleaning up:
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/bzip2_1.0.2-8_i386.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/esound-common_0.2.36-1_all.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/urlview_0.9-15_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
 
  


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