Martin WHEELER wrote: > > Can anyone help me out on this one? > > Upgrading from 2.2r2 using testing, apt-get barfed horribly over moving > from xfree86 3 to 4. > > Current situation is the usual circular unmet dependencies circus: > > can't install xlibs 4 because xpm4g 3.6 is to be installed > can't install libxaw7 because xlibs isn't yet installed ... > > There appears to be no way out of this by hand-tweaking, that I can find > -- can't remove xpm4g because everything under X depends on it; can't > install new xlibs because it conflicts with xpm4g -- etc. etc. > > apt-get wants to REMOVE 703 Mb (just about everything that runs under X) > -- there *has* to be a better way. > > Hasn't there? > > Any help really appreciated. > (Please reply off-list, as not subscribed.) > --
Looking at the xlibs here(X4,sid) it says that it provides xpm4g,so I would guess that a dpkg --force-remove-reinstreq xpm4g will help here.Anyway if you got here only dpkg --force-help will get you out of this.I had to sometimes force install a package from /var/cache/apt/archives then run dpkg-configure -a ,then apt-get -f install .Usually you need a combination of the above in no real order.
