On Sat, Dec 05, 2009 at 10:50:04AM -0800, W. Augustine Dunn III wrote:
> Thanks for you time so far but i got "no joy" from that last command either:
> 
> big...@earth 10:10:44 ~:
> sudo apt-get remove emboss-plplot5-shlibs emboss-nucleus5-shlibs
> Password:
> 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:
>   emboss: Depends: emboss-plplot6-shlibs (>= 6.1.0-3) but it is not going to
> be installed
>   emboss-ajax5-shlibs: Depends: emboss-plplot5-shlibs (>= 5.0.0-7) but it is
> not going to be installed
>   emboss-ajax6-shlibs: Depends: emboss-plplot6-shlibs (>= 6.1.0-3) but it is
> not going to be installed
> E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify
> a solution).
> 
> I guess I just need to wait for the maintainer to chime in?

/sw/bin/dpkg: error processing
/sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin-i386/sci/emboss-plplot6-shlibs_6.1.0-
+3_darwin-i386.deb
(--install):
 trying to overwrite `/sw/lib/EMBOSS/libeplplot.3.dylib', which is also in
package emboss-plplot5-shlibs

Packaging bug: having more than one package supply a runtime .dylib
file is always a recipe for disaster. That's one type of mess that is
avoided if packages strictly follow our Shlibs policy. I'm working on
fixing package, should be uploaded within a day or so.

> Is there a way i can just go in manually and rename or remove a few things
> so that fink can continue?  Maybe the original overlapping file that was
> causing the issues?

You can't "just remove or rename" the file, dpkg tracks what it
remembers installing rather than checking your actual files.

One hammer would be to 'fink list -t emboss' (and/or 'dpkg -l
\*emboss\*') and then 'dpkg --purge' all that are installed in any
form. If you get an error that doing this would break a dependency,
then 'dpkg --purge' the package that has that dependency first. You
will walk up the tree, eventually getting a clean slate on which you
should be able to "fink install" what you want.

dan

-- 
Daniel Macks
[email protected]
http://www.netspace.org/~dmacks


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