On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, John Noll wrote: > I was trying to install mplayer using apt, but when I type apt-get install > mplayer I get a whole bunch of stuff spit out on the command line like the following > > xpdf: Depends: /bin/sh but it is not installable . . . > E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f. > > I think it spits out these same messages for every package installed on my system. > > I later found the same result when I tried apt-get upgrade. > > Can someone please help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I had this happen a couple of weeks ago. After consulting with Dr. Google he said: "The version of RPM included with the [RedHat] 8.0 release is prone to getting hung, and leaving the database in need of repair. http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=73097 Generally, it is easily repaired with: rm -f /var/lib/rpm/__db* rpm --rebuilddb -vv" After running those two commands, apt should be happy again Nathan Rackliffe ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
