Package: apt Version: 0.3.12 Severity: normal When cleaning up old packages etc., I tried to remove svgalibg1 as well; just before, removing svgalib1 worked fine:
---------------------------------------------------------------------- # apt-get remove svgalib1 Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages will be REMOVED: svgalib1 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 5 not upgraded. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 304kB will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] (Reading database ... 39589 files and directories currently installed.) Removing svgalib1 ... # apt-get remove svgalibg1 Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that the package is simply not installable and a bug report against that package should be filed. The following information may help to resolve the situation: Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: gv: Depends: gs E: Sorry, broken packages ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The error message is saying that the package couldn't be installed. However, I wasn't trying to install anything! Also, apt-get check doesn't complain. I have gs-aladdin installed, which Provides: gs and depends on svgalibg1. However, this I found out by digging aroung myself, the apt-get error message doesn't help any here. Paul Slootman -- System Information Debian Release: potato Kernel Version: Linux janux 2.2.12 #1 Thu Aug 26 12:52:51 MEST 1999 i586 unknown Versions of the packages apt depends on: ii libc6 2.1.2-2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and timezone ii libstdc++2.10 2.95.2-0pre1 The GNU stdc++ library
