Package: apt Version: 0.5.27 There are certain combinations of packages that apt-get seems unable to reinstall. It can do them in separate operations, in either order, but try to reinstall them together, and...
apt-get install --reinstall debianutils coreutils Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/2623kB of archives. After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] E: Couldn't configure pre-depend coreutils for debianutils, probably a dependency cycle. This is extremely annoying when reinstalling a long list of packages.
