Apt-Get Whinging about an unmet dependency but I think it's just a badly configured package.

James McDonald james
Mon May 17 12:02:22 PDT 2004


Folks I have the following problem

# when I go to do an apt-get upgrade it complains of  a failed 
dependency as follows

[root at amd root]# apt-get upgrade
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:
  mplayer: Depends: mplayer-common (= 0.92) but 2:0.92-1 is installed
  mplayer-common: Depends: mplayer (= 0.92)
E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.

# however I have the correct files installed but I think the packages 
are broken....
[root at amd root]# rpm -qa | grep mplayer
mplayer-0.92-1
mplayer-common-0.92-1
mplayerplug-in-2.40-fc1

is there a way to tell apt-get to stop trying to resolve the dependency 
that isn't broken it jsut thinks it is ???




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