Re: [tlug] Well now I'm hosed - Dapper/Edgy died

[Dave M G <martin@example.com>]

TLUG,

After much file by file removal, I've seemingly got the errors down to 
two packages that are blocking me from upgrading to Edgy.

It's insane but these two files are just help file documents, and yet 
some error with them is holding me up from installing an entire OS.

Anyway, ranting aside, below you can see my dilemma. I do the apt-get -f 
install thing, and it tells me that two help files have "unmet 
dependencies". I try to remove one, openoffice.org-help-ja, and it says 
that I can't because language-support-ja relies on it. So I try to 
remove language-support-ja and it tells me I can't because a bunch of 
files depend on it. I start to remove one of those files, and guess 
what, language-support-ja depends on it, and so the circle is closed and 
I can't get out.

Is there any way I can manually blow these help files out of the 
dpkg/apt-get system, or resolve their dependancies, or anything so that 
I can successfully complete the sudo apt-get -f install process?


dave@example.com:~/Desktop$ sudo apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Correcting dependencies... failed.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 openoffice.org-help-en-us: Depends: openoffice.org-writer but it is 
not installable
 openoffice.org-help-ja: Depends: openoffice.org-writer but it is not 
installable
E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be 
caused by held packages.
E: Unable to correct dependencies
dave@example.com:~/Desktop$ sudo dpkg -r openoffice.org-help-ja
dpkg: dependency problems prevent removal of openoffice.org-help-ja:
language-support-ja depends on openoffice.org-help-ja | 
openoffice.org2-help-ja; however:
 Package openoffice.org-help-ja is to be removed.
 Package openoffice.org2-help-ja is not installed.
dpkg: error processing openoffice.org-help-ja (--remove):
dependency problems - not removing
Errors were encountered while processing:
openoffice.org-help-ja
dave@example.com:~/Desktop$ sudo dpkg -r language-support-ja
dpkg: dependency problems prevent removal of language-support-ja:
openoffice.org-l10n-ja depends on openoffice.org-common (>= 2.0.4~rc3) 
| language-support-ja; however:
 Package openoffice.org-common is not installed.
 Package language-support-ja is to be removed.
openoffice.org-l10n-ja depends on openoffice.org-common (<< 2.0.5) | 
language-support-ja; however:
 Package openoffice.org-common is not installed.
 Package language-support-ja is to be removed.
openoffice.org-l10n-ja depends on openoffice.org-common (>= 2.0.4~rc3) 
| language-support-ja; however:
 Package openoffice.org-common is not installed.
 Package language-support-ja is to be removed.
openoffice.org-l10n-ja depends on openoffice.org-common (<< 2.0.5) | 
language-support-ja; however:
 Package openoffice.org-common is not installed.
 Package language-support-ja is to be removed.
dpkg: error processing language-support-ja (--remove):
dependency problems - not removing
Errors were encountered while processing:
language-support-ja
dave@example.com:~/Desktop$ sudo dpkg -r openoffice.org-l10n-ja
dpkg: dependency problems prevent removal of openoffice.org-l10n-ja:
language-support-ja depends on openoffice.org-l10n-ja | 
openoffice.org2-l10n-ja; however:
 Package openoffice.org-l10n-ja is to be removed.
 Package openoffice.org2-l10n-ja is not installed.
 Package openoffice.org-l10n-ja which provides openoffice.org2-l10n-ja 
is to be removed.
language-support-ja depends on openoffice.org-l10n-ja | 
openoffice.org2-l10n-ja; however:
 Package openoffice.org-l10n-ja is to be removed.
 Package openoffice.org2-l10n-ja is not installed.
 Package openoffice.org-l10n-ja which provides openoffice.org2-l10n-ja 
is to be removed.
dpkg: error processing openoffice.org-l10n-ja (--remove):
dependency problems - not removing
Errors were encountered while processing:
openoffice.org-l10n-ja