Problems with apt-get (Conectiva)

[jonatanschroeder]

I'm getting some problems with apt-get on Conectiva Linux 10. When I use 'apt-get install <anything>' or 'apt-get upgrade', I get the following error:

$ apt-get upgrade
Reading Package Lists...
Building Dependency Tree...
You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  aalib: Depends: /sbin/ldconfig
         Depends: /sbin/ldconfig
         Depends: libc.so.6
         Depends: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.0)
         Depends: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1)
         Depends: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1.3)
         Depends: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3)
         Depends: libm.so.6
         Depends: libm.so.6(GLIBC_2.0)
  abiword: Depends: /bin/sh
           Depends: enchant but it is not installed
           Depends: libc.so.6
           Depends: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.0)
           Depends: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1)
           Depends: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1.3)
           Depends: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.2)
           Depends: libdl.so.2
           Depends: libfreetype.so.6
           Depends: libfribidi.so.0
           Depends: libgcc_s.so.1
           Depends: libgcc_s.so.1(GCC_3.0)
           Depends: libglib-2.0.so.0
...
              Depends: libt1.so.1
  xterm: Depends: utempter but it is not installed
         Depends: xfree86-common
         Depends: libXaw.so.7
         Depends: libXpm.so.4
         Depends: libc.so.6
         Depends: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.0)
         Depends: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1)
         Depends: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3)
         Depends: libutempter.so.0
  xvattr: Depends: libc.so.6
          Depends: libdl.so.2
          Depends: libgdk-1.2.so.0
          Depends: libglib-1.2.so.0
          Depends: libgmodule-1.2.so.0
          Depends: libgtk-1.2.so.0
          Depends: libm.so.6
          Depends: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.0)
  zip: Depends: libc.so.6
       Depends: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.0)
       Depends: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1)
       Depends: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3)

When I try to use 'apt-get -f install', I get:

Reading Package Lists...
Building Dependency Tree...
Correcting dependencies... failed.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  aalib: Depends: /sbin/ldconfig
         Depends: /sbin/ldconfig
         Depends: libc.so.6
         Depends: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.0)
         Depends: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1)
         Depends: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1.3)
         Depends: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3)
         Depends: libm.so.6
         Depends: libm.so.6(GLIBC_2.0)
  abiword: Depends: /bin/sh
           Depends: enchant but it is not installed
           Depends: libc.so.6
           Depends: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.0)
           Depends: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1)
           Depends: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1.3)
           Depends: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.2)
           Depends: libdl.so.2
           Depends: libfreetype.so.6
           Depends: libfribidi.so.0
...
        Depends: libm.so.6(GLIBC_2.0)
        Depends: libt1.so.1
  xpdf-progs: Depends: libc.so.6
              Depends: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.0)
              Depends: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1)
              Depends: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.2)
              Depends: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3)
              Depends: libfreetype.so.6
              Depends: libgcc_s.so.1
              Depends: libgcc_s.so.1(GCC_3.0)
              Depends: libm.so.6
              Depends: libm.so.6(GLIBC_2.0)
              Depends: libt1.so.1
  xterm: Depends: utempter but it is not installed
         Depends: xfree86-common
         Depends: libXaw.so.7
         Depends: libXpm.so.4
         Depends: libc.so.6
         Depends: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.0)
         Depends: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1)
         Depends: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3)
         Depends: libutempter.so.0
  xvattr: Depends: libc.so.6
          Depends: libdl.so.2
          Depends: libgdk-1.2.so.0
          Depends: libglib-1.2.so.0
          Depends: libgmodule-1.2.so.0
          Depends: libgtk-1.2.so.0
          Depends: libm.so.6
          Depends: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.0)
  zip: Depends: libc.so.6
       Depends: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.0)
       Depends: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.1)
       Depends: libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.3)
E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages.
E: Unable to correct dependencies

This happened after rebuilding the rpm database (rpmdb --rebuilddb) because of an error of apt-get. Can anybody help me to get my system working again?

Thanks,

Jonatan Schroeder

 

[jstreich]

EEEeek. Use apt-get or rpms, not both. They will keep playing tug-a-war till or both break... like your seeing now.

You could try apt-getting all the dependencies in the list... but I don't think there is a good way of doing this...

 

[jonatanschroeder]

Thanks for helping, but I corrected it using Synaptic.

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Jonatan Schroeder