Problem With Upgrading to Woody...As Usual

[Mikenell]

Ok, I was upgrading to woody all night and then after I went through all of the dialog things to configure it I thought it was going ok, well i have some package errors which exited so I ran apt-get dist-upgrade and got this:

mikenell:/mnt/win# apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Calculating Upgrade... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libxml-dumper-perl sablotron xbel xbel-utils xlibmesa-dev xlibosmesa-dev
xlibosmesa3 xserver-common-v3 xspecs
The following packages have been kept back
bsdgames task-x-window-system task-x-window-system-core xfonts-100dpi
xfonts-75dpi xfonts-base xfonts-cyrillic xfonts-scalable
70 packages upgraded, 9 newly installed, 0 to remove and 8 not upgraded.
179 packages not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/41.1MB of archives. After unpacking 17.7MB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
/bin/sh: /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure: No such file or directory
E: Write error - write (32 Broken pipe)
E: Failure running script /usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt
mikenell:/mnt/win#

It seems like there is always a problem when I upgrade!
What have I done wrong this time?
Could it be because I apt-get dist-upgraded and not apt-get upgraded?
Btw, I restarted and then it automatically tried to start in X as usual, which crashed back to CLI so I ran startx and it went into X, I dunno what the problem there was...
Then I ran dselect and used the configure option to configure the packages which worked but I now get the same tcl/tk related error messeges in packages that I did the last time.
I hope someone can help. Doesn't anyone else get these problems?!?! I fixed it the latest time by reinstalling debian and not including the tcl/tk stuff at the install point but then for whatever reason, helix wouldnt install. Maybe that could be the solution again?
Thanks
Mikenell

[rod]

Try this:


apt-get install task-tcltk-dev task-tcltk

Regards,
Rod

[Mikenell]

Didn't work http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/frown.gif Same errors, it seems the packages are all dependent on each other.
The packages that wont configure are:
tcl8.2-dev
tk8.2-dev
blt-dev
tktable-dev

Mikenell

[SlCKB0Y]

I had the EXACT same problem
seems like they have ****ed those packages
try tcl/tk 8.3
worked for me

[teeitup]

try

apt-get -f install

when it runs clean do the dist-upgrade thing again.



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[Mikenell]

I tried apt-get -f install lots of times and it always gave the same errors.
SlCKB0Y: So I apt-get install tcl8.3-dev and tk8.3-dev?
I'll go try that now, thanks.
Mikenell

[Mikenell]

I did it and it doesn't work still. First of all it just added tcl8.3-dev and tk8.3-dev to the list of packages that wouldnt configure, so i apt-get removed tcl8.2-dev and tk8.2-dev which then started giving me only errors that tcl8.3-dev and tk8.3-dev wouldn't configure. The full error I get now is this:

Building Dependency Tree... Done
Calculating Upgrade... Done
The following packages have been kept back
bsdgames task-x-window-system-core xfonts-100dpi xfonts-75dpi xfonts-base
xfonts-cyrillic xfonts-scalable
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 7 not upgraded.
2 packages not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Setting up tcl8.3-dev (8.3.1-3) ...
update-alternatives: unable to make /usr/share/aclocal/tcl.m4.dpkg-tmp a symlink to /etc/alternatives/tcl.m4: No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing tcl8.3-dev (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of tk8.3-dev:
tk8.3-dev depends on tcl8.3-dev; however:
Package tcl8.3-dev is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing tk8.3-dev (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
tcl8.3-dev
tk8.3-dev
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
mikenell:~#

I've tried apt-get dist-upgrade, apt-get -f install and deselects configure and install options lots of times but it just won't work!
Someone said manually download and install the perl5.6 deb but I couldn't find it on the debian tree.
Mikenell