Bug#315723: Testing Upgrade - Aptitude

Russell Jones russell@rumese.com
Tue, 28 Jun 2005 18:19:39 -0400


I gave that a shot, but kvim doesn't appear to be installed.

dyke:~# dpkg --purge kvim
dpkg - warning: ignoring request to remove kvim which isn't installed.

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Dunno if this helps, and again, don't know if it's appropriate to be
bringing the problem to this place.  If there's someone else I can/should
contact please do tell:

dyke:~# aptitude -f install
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done
The following packages are unused and will be REMOVED:
  bittorrent fakeroot
The following NEW packages will be automatically installed:
  vim-gtk
The following packages will be automatically REMOVED:
  bittorrent-gui java-package
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  vim-gtk
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  amsn analog apache apache-common apache-utils awstats bind bittorrent-gui
  build-essential cksfv clamav clamav-base clamav-freshclam debconf-utils
  debhelper dhcp dhelp doc-base docker dpatch dwww ethereal ethereal-common
  fetchmail fetchmailconf gawk gsfonts-x11 gstreamer0.8-oss
  gstreamer0.8-swfdec gstreamer0.8-x html2text imlib1 intltool-debian
  java-package java2-common libadns1 libapache-mod-php4 libclamav1
  libconfig-inifiles-perl libdb3-dev libdbd-mysql-perl libdbi-perl
  libdevel-symdump-perl libdigest-hmac-perl libexpat1-dev libgcrypt11-dev
  libgd-gd2-noxpm-perl libgd-graph-perl libgd-graph3d-perl libgd-text-perl
  libgd2-noxpm libgdbm-dev libgmp3 libgnutls11-dev libgpg-error-dev
  libice-dev libident-dev libio-pty-perl libmysqlclient10
  libmysqlclient10-dev libmysqlclient12 libnet-daemon-perl libnet-dns-perl
  libnet-ip-perl libnet-perl libnet-telnet-perl libnet-xwhois-perl
  libopencdk8-dev libpam-krb5 libpam0g-dev libpcap0.8 libplrpc-perl
  libpng10-0 libsm-dev libssl-dev libswfdec0 libwxgtk2.4 libwxgtk2.4-python
  libx11-dev libxaw7-dev libxext-dev libxi-dev libxmu-dev libxpm-dev
  libxt-dev libxv-dev libzzip-0-12 linkchecker links lynx mozilla-firefox
  mysql-client mysql-server ncftp nmap ntpdate php4 php4-common php4-mysql
  phpmyadmin po-debconf postgresql-dev proftpd proftpd-common proftpd-doc
  python-psyco-doc python-tk rdesktop realpath rmagic samba samba-common
  screen scrollz smbfs sox swf-player tcl8.3 tcl8.3-dev tcl8.3-doc tcltls
  unzip webalizer winbind x-dev xfonts-nexus xfstt xlibs-static-dev xterm
  zip zlib1g-dev
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 133 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/717kB of archives. After unpacking 205MB will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] Y
Writing extended state information... Done
(Reading database ... 121120 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking vim-gtk (from .../vim-gtk_1%3a6.3-072+1_i386.deb) ...
dpkg-divert: `diversion of /usr/bin/vim to /usr/bin/vim.org by vim-gtk'
clashes with `diversion of /usr/bin/vim to /usr/bin/vim.org by kvim'
dpkg: error processing
/var/cache/apt/archives/vim-gtk_1%3a6.3-072+1_i386.deb (--unpack):
 subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/vim-gtk_1%3a6.3-072+1_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Ack!  Something bad happened while installing packages.  Trying to recover:
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of vimpart:
 vimpart depends on vim-gtk | gvim; however:
  Package vim-gtk is not installed.
  Package gvim is not installed.
dpkg: error processing vimpart (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of kdeaddons:
 kdeaddons depends on vimpart (>= 4:3.3.2-4); however:
  Package vimpart is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing kdeaddons (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of kde:
 kde depends on kdeaddons; however:
  Package kdeaddons is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing kde (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
 vimpart
 kdeaddons
 kde
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done

-----Original Message-----
From: Pierre Habouzit [mailto:madcoder@debian.org] 
Sent: Saturday, June 25, 2005 9:39 AM
To: pkg-vim-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org; Russell Jones;
315723@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: Bug#315723: Testing Upgrade - Aptitude

> If this is completely out of place I apologize in advance, but would
> appreciate if I could be pointed in the right direction.  I have not
> had much luck trying to fix it on my own and with the help of the
> people of #debian@irc.debian.org.
>


the bug seems to come from kvim that no longer exists. I suggest to you 
to run :

dpkg --purge kvim

apt-get -f install


that should solve your problem.
-- 
.O.  Pierre Habouzit
..O                                                madcoder@debian.org
OOO                                                http://www.madism.org