I recieved the following error while attempting an upgrade: > apt-get upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these. Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: xbase-clients: Depends: xlibs (> 4.2.0) but 4.1.0-17 is installed E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.
Following instructions, I got the following error: > apt-get -f install Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Correcting dependencies... Done The following extra packages will be installed: xlibs 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 218 not upgraded. 8 packages not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B/1205kB of archives. After unpacking 262kB will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y (Reading database ... 53328 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace xlibs 4.1.0-17 (using .../xlibs_4.2.1-4_i386.deb) ... Warning: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb symbolic link points to the wrong place. Removing. Unpacking replacement xlibs ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/xlibs_4.2.1-4_i386.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults', which is also in package tetex-base Analyzing /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults: drwxr-xr-x 16 root root 4096 Jun 21 19:34 /usr drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Nov 28 13:52 /usr/X11R6 drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Nov 28 13:54 /usr/X11R6/lib drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 4096 Nov 28 13:54 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 28 13:54 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults ERROR: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults is not a symbolic link. The package preinst script should have failed. Please report the package name, version, and the text of the above error message(s) to <[email protected]>. dpkg: error while cleaning up: subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/xlibs_4.2.1-4_i386.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) The package and version, I assume, is xlibs version 4.2.0 upgrading from 4.1.0-17, as from the first error message. I tried moving the app-defaults directory as recommended by a colleague and got the same errors. Thank you for your time, Michael Oneppo
