At 10 Jun 2002 09:56:47 +1000, Timothy Bateman wrote:
> I've just installed Debian Woody for PowerPC and I have some dependency
> problems with apt-get.  After the base install, when Debian booted I
> selected a fairly minimal set to just get the machine up and going, such
> as C/C++ so I can rebuild a kernel and XWindow System.  
> 
> I used mirror.cse.unsw.edu.au as my source and when apt-get had received
> all of the packages, it goes to install and then hits an error like
> this:
> 
> libopenldap-runtime 1_3a1.2.12-1
> error processing libopenldap-runtime 1_3a1.2.12-1
> trying to overwrite ldapsearchprefs which is also in libldap2
> 
> (I can't get the exact message because hardly any programs are
> installed, no ftp etc)

looking at my woody (i386) system here, i can't see any packages that
depend on libopenldap-runtime, other than libopenldap1 and then
nothing depends on that.

why are you installing libopenldap-runtime at all?

(if you wanted to install ldap stuff, you should be using the openldap
version 2 packages "slapd" and "ldap-utils", rather than the version
1.2 "openldap*" packages)

> I tried using apt-get -f dist-upgrade or removing the
> libopenldap-runtime package but with no success. I get into a chain
> reaction of dependcy problems if I try to remove any packages depending
> on this.

try some magic like:

 apt-get install libldap2 libopenldap-runtime-   # <- note trailing -

to install something and remove something else in one go.

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 - Gus
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