On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 08:30:47AM +0000, Toby Weston wrote: > Hi Folks, > > Appologies if this isn't the right forum to ask the question (its > fairly general) but I was just looking for some help in fixing some > broken packages (read: newbie). > > I've been installing various bits and pieces with apt and now synaptic > says I've got broken dependancies, I think becuase there is a > duplicate; > > java-1.4.2-gcj-compat-1.4.2.0-40jpp_31rh.FC4.1 > java-1.4.2-gcj-compat-1.4.2.0-40jpp_31rh
Looks like apt was interrupted/aborted. > apt and synaptic won't let me remove these and I get the following > error if I try with rpm. Did you try apt-get -f install? > [root]# rpm -e java-1.4.2-gcj-compat-1.4.2.0-40jpp_31rh > /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.6409: line 8: /usr/bin/rebuild-security-providers: No > such file or directory > error: %postun(java-1.4.2-gcj-compat-1.4.2.0-40jpp_31rh.i386) > scriptlet failed, exit status 127 > > Can anyone outline how to sort out broken dependancies for me please? > I'm hoping to just uninstall anything offending and start again as > this will be better than reinstalling the whole box. Use --noscripts as an additional option to rpm. -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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