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

[Niels Kobschätzki <n.kobschaetzki@example.com>]

On Jan 17, 2007, at 2:50 PM, Dave M G wrote:

> 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?

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just bein' curious (i'm asking that myself since the thread started)  
- you told us that you backed up your important files. why don't you  
just backup your home-folder via Knoppix or some other live-cd and  
just re-install the whole system? wouldn't that be much faster and  
with less risk (ending up with a messed up upgraded system) than the  
stuff what you're doing?

Niels