After upgrading a bunch of packages (apache apache-common apache-ssl apache-utils libperl-dev libperl5.8 perl perl-base perl-modules) to the version in unstable (from testing), this problem went away. Go figure...
Sorry for wasting your time. Jayen On Sun, 11 Jul 2004, Jayen Ashar wrote: > > Could you try apt-get -f install and see what apt wants to do? > Try #1: > >apt-get -f install libdb4.0 > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > libdb4.0 is already the newest version. > 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded. > > Try #2: > >apt-get -f install --reinstall libdb4.0 > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 3 not > upgraded. > Need to get 0B/302kB of archives. > After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used. > Do you want to continue? [Y/n] > (Reading database ... 75716 files and directories currently installed.) > Preparing to replace libdb4.0 4.0.14-2 (using > .../libdb4.0_4.0.14-2_i386.deb) ... > Unpacking replacement libdb4.0 ... > Setting up libdb4.0 (4.0.14-2) ... > > >apt-get remove libdb4.0 > 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: > > The following packages have unmet dependencies: > xlibs: Depends: libxft1 but it is not going to be installed > E: Broken packages > > Try #3: > >apt-get -f remove libdb4.0 > 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: > > The following packages have unmet dependencies: > xlibs: Depends: libxft1 but it is not going to be installed > E: Broken packages > > Any other ideas? > > --Jayen > >

