[wellylug] dpkg stuff

[Daniel Reurich]

Hi Edouard,

Have you been mixing repo's ie packages from Sid/Unstable with 
Wheezy/Stable or Jessie/Testing??

Regards,
	Daniel


On 27/03/14 15:49, Hugh Davenport wrote:
> Hmm,
>
> In my experience when I get problems like this, I usually just copy the
> data
> off and reinstall. But if you want to have a go and try fix this, I'm sure
> there are some other people on this list that could help!?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Hugh
>
> On 2014-03-27 15:44, E Chalaron wrote:
>> Hi Hugh, thanks for the mail
>>
>> Yep I installed some extra stuff for iceweasel, then the all thing
>> turn out to be a nightmare
>> Removed all iceweasel plugins / debug /whatnot using synaptic
>> Now iceweasel is not even working properly ... but that is beside the
>> point
>>
>> The thing started to get really bad with update for timezone (time
>> data or something ?)
>> Since then ... that's it, I have been through plenty of googling
>> pointing more or less toward the same solutions.
>> I think it made it worst trying to apply them.
>>
>> I can reinstall but a better idea would be to rescue the current OS.
>> For say Opensuse has this option but not sure about Debian.
>>
>> Cheers
>> E
>>
>>
>>
>> What led up to it do you know?
>>>
>>> On 2014-03-27 15:20, E Chalaron wrote:
>>>> Hi all
>>>>
>>>>  I managed to get my debian out of control
>>>>
>>>>  #apt-get upgrade
>>>>  Reading package lists... Done
>>>>  Building dependency tree
>>>>  Reading state information... Done
>>>>  You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these.
>>>>  The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>>>>  libc6 : Depends: libgcc1 but it is not installed
>>>>  E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.
>>>>
>>>>  Ok ok will do ...
>>>>
>>>>  #apt-get -f upgrade
>>>>  Reading package lists... Done
>>>>  Building dependency tree
>>>>  Reading state information... Done
>>>>  Correcting dependencies... Done
>>>>  The following NEW packages will be installed:
>>>>  libgcc1
>>>>  0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
>>>>  2 not fully installed or removed.
>>>>  Need to get 0 B/43.1 kB of archives.
>>>>  After this operation, 123 kB of additional disk space will be used.
>>>>  Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y
>>>>  E: CANNOT GET DEBCONF VERSION. IS DEBCONF INSTALLED?
>>>>  DEBCONF: APT-EXTRACTTEMPLATES FAILED: NO SUCH FILE OR DIRECTORY
>>>>  dpkg: regarding .../libgcc1_1%3a4.7.2-5_amd64.deb containing
>>>> libgcc1:amd64, pre-dependency problem:
>>>>  libgcc1 pre-depends on multiarch-support
>>>>  multiarch-support is unpacked, but has never been configured.
>>>>
>>>>  dpkg: error processing
>>>> /var/cache/apt/archives/libgcc1_1%3a4.7.2-5_amd64.deb (--unpack):
>>>>  pre-dependency problem - not installing libgcc1:amd64
>>>>  Errors were encountered while processing:
>>>>  /var/cache/apt/archives/libgcc1_1%3a4.7.2-5_amd64.deb
>>>>  E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>>>>
>>>>  Any suggestion where from that ?
>>>>  Thanks
>>>>  E
>>>
>>>
>
>


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