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[LUG] Arghgh! Apt-get issues again!

 

Hi all.

Debian Sid, upgrade issues again.

Last night I did an "apt-get update" followed by a nice "apt-get upgrade".  All went 
swimmingly until... a broken dependency issue occured.
Basically, I now have a system where whenever I try to install/remove/upgrade 
anything, I get the following:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  evolution: Depends: evolution-data-server (>= 1.2.3) but 1.0.4-1 is to be installed
  libx11-6: Depends: x11-common (> 4.3.0) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a 
solution).

I have tried as it suggested and did a "fix broken packages" install:

root@grants:/home/gsewell# apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  evolution-data-server x11-common
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  evolution-data-server1.2
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  x11-common
The following packages will be upgraded:
  evolution-data-server
1 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 1 to remove and 109 not upgraded.
4 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/2747kB of archives.
After unpacking 868kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 377211 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking x11-common (from .../x11-common_6.8.2.dfsg.1-4_all.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/x11-common_6.8.2.dfsg.1-4_all.deb 
(--unpack):
 trying to overwrite `/etc/X11/Xsession', which is also in package xorg-common
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/x11-common_6.8.2.dfsg.1-4_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

As you can see, it doesn't appear to have worked.  I am stumped.

Cheers.

Grant.
-- 
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