[NBLUG/talk] Debian package dependency weirdness

[Lincoln Peters]

Having gotten Synaptic to work, I experimented with this a little more. 
I discovered that it is allowing me to install and remove packages as
usual, although it tries (and fails) to install libpisync0 every time. 
As far as I can tell, the only problem (at least now) is a harmless
error message popping up after every apt-get operation.

I'd still be interested in figuring out how to get rid of the error
message, but it is no longer causing any problems (aside from an extra
mouse click when I use Synaptic).

On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 11:37, Lincoln Peters wrote:
> I seem to have figured out almost everything I need to know to run my
> Debian system, but having installed GNOME 2 and Ximian Evolution (I'm
> using both unstable and Ximian's repository), I am now getting the
> following error every time I try to install something via apt-get:
> 
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these:
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>   evolution: Depends: libpisync0 but it is not going to be installed
> E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).
> 
> I then tried to install libpisync0 and got the following error:
> 
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> Suggested packages:
>   gnome-pilot
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>   libpisync0
> 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
> 1 not fully installed or removed.
> Need to get 13.4kB of archives.
> After unpacking 65.5kB of additional disk space will be used.
> Get:1 ftp://ftp.us.debian.org unstable/main libpisync0 0.11.8-7 [13.4kB]
> Fetched 13.4kB in 1s (10.9kB/s)
> (Reading database ... 50062 files and directories currently installed.)
> Unpacking libpisync0 (from .../libpisync0_0.11.8-7_i386.deb) ...
> dpkg: error processing
> /var/cache/apt/archives/libpisync0_0.11.8-7_i386.deb (--unpack):
>  trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/libpisync.so.0', which is also in package
> libpisock8
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  /var/cache/apt/archives/libpisync0_0.11.8-7_i386.deb
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> 
> I get the same error when I run "apt-get -f install" (since it again
> wants to install pibpisync0).
> 
> I think that it's obvious that Evolution has no unmet dependencies,
> since I'm using it right now to write this e-mail!  So what could be
> going on?
> 
> I have no desire to revert to GNOME 1.4; for one thing, cut-and-paste
> between applications works correctly now (and so I did not have to
> manually re-type all of the apt-get output as before)!
> 
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