apt-get corruption

[Evil Jeff]

I can't seem to fix a problem I've been having with apt-get that started when I tried installing gnumeric and abiword separately. I ended up having a conflict between the versions of libgnomeprint that abiword and gnumeric use. I can't force them to install or overwrite eachother so I can't even uninstall either. Using dpkg doesn't work to remove the actual abiword or gnumeric packages, it just gives me the help screen over and over (I know I'm using the correct syntax and full deb filenames). Don't know what to do. Any advice?

Evil Jeff
www.hellincorporated.com (http://www.hellincorporated.com)

[Strike]

Try

apt-get clean
dpkg --purge gnumeric abiword (or whatever the package names are)
apt-get install gnumeric abiword

---edit---
ficksed uh tie-poh

[This message has been edited by Strike (edited 02 December 2000).]

[Evil Jeff]

Thanks a million, --purge did it. What a dependency mess! I'm taking helixcode out of my sources.list file - they change too much so that if I install something from helixcode, any other gnome package has to be from them too. Oh well, thanks!

Evil Jeff
www.hellincorporated.com (http://www.hellincorporated.com)

[Strike]

Awesome. Every time I do an apt-get upgrade I immediately follow it with:

dpkg -l | grep rc
dpkg --purge (list of stuff from output above)

Glad that worked though. dpkg is more powerful than apt-get but apt-get is so simple and useful. They complement each other rather well.

[Strike]

Oh, and another thing. An even easier to use tool is aptitude. I raved about it in the Rants forum earlier. It's basically dselect with a much better interface.

[Evil Jeff]

I can't figure aptitude out yet. I use console-apt sometimes when I'm bored and want to try stuff out, but not often. Mostly I just search my cache for stuff I need.

Evil Jeff
www.hellincorporated.com (http://www.hellincorporated.com)