I run into this problem a lot. The problem is that there are different version of the same package on the different servers. (Debian's vs Ximian) Usually doing a apt-get -f install will solve these problems. Sometime it doesn't and you need to force and install by using the --force-overwrite option. YMMV David Royer wrote: > > I am a long-time mandrake user...trying to convert over to Debian. > > I just got Ximian-Gnome installed, but now when I do an apt-get upgrade I > am getting errors about unmet dependancies. I would appreciate it if > someone could help point me in the right direction to fix this. I could > fix this with RPM's but I don't know enough about Debian's packaging > format to know how to fix this yet. > > When I apt-get upgrade I get the following: > merlin:/home/dave# apt-get upgrade > 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: > libguile6-slib: Depends: libguile6 (= 1:1.3.4-helix5) but 1:1.3.4-3 is > installed > E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f. > > When I add the -f parameter it errors out with: > <...snipped...> > Fetched 1105kB in 1m47s (10.3kB/s) > Configuring packages ... > (Reading database ... 87468 files and directories currently installed.) > Preparing to replace libguile6 1:1.3.4-3 (using > .../libguile6_1%3a1.3.4-helix5_i386.deb) ... > Unpacking replacement libguile6 ... > dpkg: error processing > /var/cache/apt/archives/libguile6_1%3a1.3.4-helix5_i386.deb (--unpack): > trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/libguilereadline.so.0.0.0', which is also > in package libguile9 > dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) > Preparing to replace bsdutils 1:2.10q-1 (using > .../bsdutils_1%3a2.10s-2_i386.deb) ... > Unpacking replacement bsdutils ... > Errors were encountered while processing: > /var/cache/apt/archives/libguile6_1%3a1.3.4-helix5_i386.deb > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list