On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 04:54:32PM -0700, Donald Greg McGahan wrote: > A debian install in VMware is refusing to behave. > Below is the end of the aptitude output. > > 663 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 79 not upgraded. > Need to get 0B/466MB of archives. After unpacking 34.0MB will be used. > Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] y > E: This installation run will require temporarily removing the essential > package e2fsprogs due to a Conflicts/Pre-Depends loop. This is often bad, > but if you really want to do it, activate the APT::Force-LoopBreak option. > E: Internal Error, Could not early remove e2fsprogs > Ack! Something bad happened while installing packages. Trying to recover: > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree > Reading extended state information > Initializing package states... Done > Reading task descriptions... Done > Norse:/# > I'm stumped and apparently my googling skills are wierded today. > Any ideas? and Thanks in advance. > D.G. aka "DiG" McGahan
I searched bugs.debian.org for e2fsprogs and found this: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=325834 #325834: apt-get install e2fsprogs get a Conflicts Pre-Depends loop error The problem in that thread is that the person was attempting to update more than one Debian release. woody->sid, instead of woody->sarge->sid. -troy _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
