Debian upgrade problems

[Brian Densmore]

No response to my original post so I'm starting a new one just in case it 
got filtered by mail clients.

Isn't there anyone who has any ideas on how to fix this?

Here's the output of apt-get -f install

<some text about 1 package (libxrender) needs installing>

dpkg-divert: 'diversion of /usr/X11R6/lib/libXrender.so.1.1 to /usr/X11R6/lib/libXrender.so.1.1
clashes with /usr/X11R6/lib/libXrender.so.1.1 to 
/usr/share/libxrender.1.1/diversion/libXrender.s0.1.1 by libxrender1.1'
dpkg:error processing /var/cache/apt/libxrender.1.0.8 (--unpack)
subprocess pre-install returned error status 2
...

Or pretty close to that.
I think I might be able to rename the exiting libxrender stuff temporarily,
but am not sure what the repercussions might be. So isn't there anyone out
there using debian that can help?

Thanks,
Brian

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Densmore 
> Sent: Monday, December 08, 2003 10:52 AM
> To: KCLUG (E-mail)
> Subject: RE: Debian dist-upgrade problems
> 
> 
> Also for more information I should have mentioned
> that 'apt-get -f install' fails because the package
> for libxrender1 errors off after unpacking. I
> don't recall the error message, but didn't see 
> any useful information in it. It basically said
> the process returned an error status of 1 or 2 in
> the pre-install section. Depending on whether I
> used apt-get or dpkg. I have tried forcing it
> to install. I even tried to remove libxrender1.1,
> but it had so many depends I was afraid to force
> it to uninstall. I have even removed the cache and
> tried downloading the libxrender from other mirrors.
> I also tried using dselect, which shows a lot more
> broken packages than dpkg does. Very odd. The system
> seems to be running fine, but I'm currently running 
> half woody and half sarge. I could try removing X
> entirely and reinstalling it, but don't know how to
> do that and really don't want to.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Brian Densmore 
> > Sent: Monday, December 08, 2003 8:46 AM
> > To: KCLUG (E-mail)
> > Subject: Debian #!@?&* dist-upgrade problems
> > 
> > 
> > Ok, I tried to upgrade my debian from stable to testing.
> > Everything was going fine until it tried to upgrade
> > libxrender1 which somehow had an unofficial version 1.1
> > installed and it wanted to install version 1.0.8. I am 
> > assuming this is part of the problem, as it says that
> > libxrender1 isn't installed, but apt-cache says that
> > 1.1 is installed but 1.0.8 isn't. Now my system won't
> > finish the dist-upgrade because I can't get ast this stupid
> > issue. Anyone have any suggestions, because I'm about to 
> > trash debian and go back to Mandrake on the laptop?
> > 
> >  Brian
> > 
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