Debian upgrade problems

[Brian Densmore]

Thanks for the help on this. Over the weekend,
I ran uninstall from dpkg and then apt-get -f install
and everything is ok now. Strange that when I tried to
uninstall from apt-get it failed but it worked from dpkg
flawlessly. Or maybe it had something to do with my
renaming of the installed files before running the uninstall.
Anyway now I now longer get apt-get errors and can continue
adding accessories to my debian laptop. So far I like debian,
but it needs better documentation. Or at least a good healthy
FAQ.

Thanks Chris and Brian for pointing me in the right direction!

Thanks all for the suggestions.

Brian

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Kelsay 
> Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 10:50 AM
> To: kclug at kclug.org
> Subject: Debian upgrade problems
> 
> 
> I got help to a similar problem with Python 2.3 from Cymor 
> (Chris Bier) at the LUG meeting.  Seems Python 2.3 was 
> installed 2 ways.  python2.3_2.3.x and python_2.3.x .  Go 
> figure.  Not really sure what he did to fix that issue as we 
> fixed so many little things that night.  My laptop is purring 
> like a kitten.  If I could just get sound fixed, I'd be a  
> happy camper.
> 
> —----Quote-----
> 
> 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?