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

[Tim Wunder]

On 5/17/2004 8:11 AM, I believe that James McDonald wrote:

> 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 ???
> 

I'd try
# rpm --rebuilddb
followed by
# rpm -q mplayer-common

and see what the results are.

HTH,
Tim