From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mta1.math.wisc.edu ([144.92.166.194]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1FVy9s-0005Ro-00 for ; Tue, 18 Apr 2006 17:54:52 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mta1.math.wisc.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1297741A0 for ; Tue, 18 Apr 2006 16:54:16 -0500 (CDT) Received: from mta1.math.wisc.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mta1 [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 23901-11 for ; Tue, 18 Apr 2006 16:54:15 -0500 (CDT) Received: from mailhost.math.wisc.edu (lcyoung.math.wisc.edu [144.92.166.90]) by mta1.math.wisc.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F7407419F for ; Tue, 18 Apr 2006 16:54:15 -0500 (CDT) Received: from yoda.math.wisc.edu (yoda.math.wisc.edu [144.92.166.12]) by mailhost.math.wisc.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 173A0100451 for ; Tue, 18 Apr 2006 16:54:15 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <6.1.0.6.2.20060418164747.01ae1718@mailhost.math.wisc.edu> X-Sender: jheim@mailhost.math.wisc.edu (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.1.0.6 Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 16:54:14 -0500 To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." From: John Heim Subject: Re: package installation problem In-Reply-To: <20060417194419.GA8998@hhs48.com> References: <20060417194419.GA8998@hhs48.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-UWMath-MailScanner: amavisd-new at math.wisc.edu X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.7 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 21:54:52 -0000 At 02:44 PM 4/17/2006, Charles Hallenbeck wrote: >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Hash: SHA1 > >Can someone please advise me what to do? I have been living happily with >the Debian unstable distro for some time, but got bitten recently. The >package "manpages-dev" was being upgraded along with a bunch of other >stuff, and it failed with an error. I tried a number of things, >including doing a remove and purge and a new install of the package, and [...] I am not sure what modutils is but you may be able to purge and/or remove modutils, install manpages-dev, and then re-install modutils. Modutils sounds like something important though and you may not be able to remove that. PS: Somebody else mentioned that this is why they don't use the unstable version of debian... Well, I've had this come up recently with the stable version. Different packages but same problem. X11-common wouldn't install because it wanted to create a file that was in XF86Free. Of course, I don't use X but zinf wanted it installed.