atp-get broken

[Jux]

Hi

I wanted to install new packeges with apt-get and at first it worked fine, but one time it messed something up because of unmet dependency issues. So the package installation couldn't complete. Now when i want to install another package it gives me the same old crap about the uncompleted installation and to solve it - i should
apt-get -f install
(without any package)
OK i do that but then it gives another error that is a bit similar to that in the first place.

here it is:

• The following extra packages will be installed:
  kdelibs-data libx11-6 libx11-dev libxcursor-dev libxslt1.1 x-dev
  The following packages will be REMOVED:
  libxslt1
  The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libx11-6 libx11-dev libxcursor-dev libxslt1.1 x-dev
  1 packages upgraded, 5 newly installed, 1 to remove and 757 not upgraded.
  94 packages not fully installed or removed.
  Need to get 0B/7436kB of archives. After unpacking 6558kB will be used.
  Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
  Setting up base-passwd (3.5.7) ...
  
  (Reading database ... 114482 files and directories currently installed.)
  Unpacking libx11-6 (from .../libx11-6_4.3.0-7_i386.deb) ...
  dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libx11-6_4.3.0-7_i386.deb (--unpack):
  trying to overwrite `/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/lib/common/ximcp.so.2', which is also in package xlibs
  dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
  Errors were encountered while processing:
  /var/cache/apt/archives/libx11-6_4.3.0-7_i386.deb
  E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

what should i do?

[Cuddles]

Hi

I wanted to install new packeges with apt-get and at first it worked fine, but one time it messed something up because of unmet dependency issues. So the package installation couldn't complete. Now when i want to install another package it gives me the same old crap about the uncompleted installation and to solve it - i should
apt-get -f install
(without any package)
OK i do that but then it gives another error that is a bit similar to that in the first place.

here it is:

• The following extra packages will be installed:
  kdelibs-data libx11-6 libx11-dev libxcursor-dev libxslt1.1 x-dev
  The following packages will be REMOVED:
  libxslt1
  The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libx11-6 libx11-dev libxcursor-dev libxslt1.1 x-dev
  1 packages upgraded, 5 newly installed, 1 to remove and 757 not upgraded.
  94 packages not fully installed or removed.
  Need to get 0B/7436kB of archives. After unpacking 6558kB will be used.
  Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
  Setting up base-passwd (3.5.7) ...
  
  (Reading database ... 114482 files and directories currently installed.)
  Unpacking libx11-6 (from .../libx11-6_4.3.0-7_i386.deb) ...
  dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libx11-6_4.3.0-7_i386.deb (--unpack):
  trying to overwrite `/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale/lib/common/ximcp.so.2', which is also in package xlibs
  dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
  Errors were encountered while processing:
  /var/cache/apt/archives/libx11-6_4.3.0-7_i386.deb
  E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

what should i do?

Jux,

Is it me, or does 94 packages message appear too high??? I freak out when I just get ONE of these... (I am "way" out of my depth here, so, I am just pointing out what "I" see as "above normal", from what I can see... You tried to apt-get install a "big" set of packages "previously" -=- which evidently, died before it could complete its work. Now "that" previous install is forcing itself to be fixed, hopefully, before anything else can get even more messed up)

I had this happen twice: first was after doing an apt-get upgrade - and "joe" messed it up, and the other was trying to get ALSA working on my system. (if I recall my memory correctly) my system got so messed up, I had to re-install. Hopefully, someone else has better answers than me, and this "resolve" it not something you "have" to do, Jux.

Cuddles

[Jux]

so i'm in deep ... this time?
Because i had this problem as i described above i thought i'll do a upgrade and it will fix everithing, but it didn't.
another thing is that if i do
apt-get check
i'lll get:

• 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:
  kdelibs-bin: Depends: libxslt1.1 (>= 1.1.2) but it is not installed
  kdelibs4: Depends: libxslt1.1 (>= 1.1.2) but it is not installed
  Depends: kdelibs-data (>= 4:3.1.5-1) but 4:3.1.3-1 is installed
  koffice-libs: Depends: libxslt1.1 (>= 1.1.2) but it is not installed
  libqt3-mt-dev: Depends: libxcursor-dev but it is not installed
  E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.

so do i have to reintsall knoppix/debian or is there a way out of this mess?

[Stephen]

so i'm in deep ... this time?
Because i had this problem as i described above i thought i'll do a upgrade and it will fix everithing, but it didn't.
another thing is that if i do
apt-get check
i'lll get:

• 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:
  kdelibs-bin: Depends: libxslt1.1 (>= 1.1.2) but it is not installed
  kdelibs4: Depends: libxslt1.1 (>= 1.1.2) but it is not installed
  Depends: kdelibs-data (>= 4:3.1.5-1) but 4:3.1.3-1 is installed
  koffice-libs: Depends: libxslt1.1 (>= 1.1.2) but it is not installed
  libqt3-mt-dev: Depends: libxcursor-dev but it is not installed
  E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.

so do i have to reintsall knoppix/debian or is there a way out of this mess?

For the problem in your first post use dpkg --force-overwrite -i /var/cache/apt/archives/libx11-6_4.3.0-7_i386.deb and then dpkg --configure -a to configure the packages that were missed when the error happened. For this problem it looks like you do not have the libxslt1.1 or libxcursor-dev installed so install them and then see if the upgrade will work there should be no need to reinstall.

[Jux]

Thank you for that answer, it helped much and fixed lot of things, but after i
dpkg --configure -a

it displayes:

• Errors were encountered while processing:
  kdelibs-bin
  libqt3-mt-dev
  kdelibs4
  kdelibs4-dev
  koffice-libs
  koffice-data
  libarts1-dev
  

do u think i should reinstall those manually with dpkg or will they be fixed during the upgrade or what else should i do with them.
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[Jux]

ok now after i did
apt-get -f install

it at first fixed some stuff and then it had errors:

• Errors were encountered while processing:
  /var/cache/apt/archives/x-dev_4.3.0-7_all.deb
  /var/cache/apt/archives/libx11-dev_4.3.0-7_i386.deb
  /var/cache/apt/archives/libxcursor-dev_1.0.2-5_i386.deb
  E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
  

ideas are welcome...

[Stephen]

ok now after i did
apt-get -f install

it at first fixed some stuff and then it had errors:

• Errors were encountered while processing:
  /var/cache/apt/archives/x-dev_4.3.0-7_all.deb
  /var/cache/apt/archives/libx11-dev_4.3.0-7_i386.deb
  /var/cache/apt/archives/libxcursor-dev_1.0.2-5_i386.deb
  E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
  

ideas are welcome...

Without seeing the whole output I would assume you have to do a --force-overwrite of those packages then the --configure -a as well.

BTW what you are posting is not sufficient to tell what the error is we need more of the output for it to be usefull.

[Jux]

thnx for the tip ... now it seems to work