[ale] Fwd:HOW2 resolve aptitude conflict ?

[James Sumners]

Yeah, this is a pretty crazy situation. Do `dpkg --get-selections |
grep 'hold$'` and see what packages, if any, are being held. Other
than that, install coreutils and try again.

On 10/22/06, Raylynn Knight <audilover at speedfactory.net> wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-10-22 at 11:03 -0500, Courtney Thomas wrote:
> > James,
> >
> > All went OK 'til
> >       apt-get install initrd-tools kernel-image-2.4.27-2-k7
> > whose output I include in the attachment.
> >
> I'm not sure how you got into the state with so many missing
> dependencies for the 2.4.27 kernel.  But we might be able to help if you
> post the output to "apt-get upgrade".  This is most likely listing some
> held packages which are causing your difficulties.  I suspect that you
> may have fileutils installed and it needs to be replaced with coreutils.
>
> Ray

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