broken packages in Sid Repos
Posted: Thu Jan 06, 2011 11:34 pm
I have upgraded my LMDE to the sid repos about a month ago and everything was working fine. Then yesterday I noticed this error when I went to update:
Once the installation was done this error also appeared:
This is the output of the installation and the errors it throughs through dpkg.
Can someone please help me resolve this issue? I don't know what to do, still sort of a linux newb, got into LMDE to learn, but this is a little over my head.
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You have 2 broken packages on your system!
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E: /var/cache/apt/archives/pidgin-data_2.7.9-1_all.deb: trying to overwrite '/usr/share/pixmaps/pidgin/protocols/22/facebook.png',
which is also in package pidgin-facebookchat 1.67.1-1
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(Reading database ... 150433 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace pidgin-data 2.7.7-1 (using .../pidgin-data_2.7.9-1_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement pidgin-data ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/pidgin-data_2.7.9-1_all.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite '/usr/share/pixmaps/pidgin/protocols/22/facebook.png', which is also in package pidgin-facebookchat 1.67.1-1
configured to not write apport reports
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Preparing to replace dpkg-dev 1.15.8.7 (using .../dpkg-dev_1.15.8.8_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement dpkg-dev ...
Preparing to replace libdpkg-perl 1.15.8.7 (using .../libdpkg-perl_1.15.8.8_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement libdpkg-perl ...
Preparing to replace dselect 1.15.8.7 (using .../dselect_1.15.8.8_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement dselect ...
Preparing to replace libsnmp-base 5.4.3~dfsg-1 (using .../libsnmp-base_5.4.3~dfsg-2_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement libsnmp-base ...
Preparing to replace libsnmp15 5.4.3~dfsg-1 (using .../libsnmp15_5.4.3~dfsg-2_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement libsnmp15 ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/pidgin-data_2.7.9-1_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
Setting up libdpkg-perl (1.15.8.8) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libpurple0:
libpurple0 depends on pidgin-data (>= 2.7.9); however:
Version of pidgin-data on system is 2.7.7-1.
dpkg: error processing libpurple0 (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libpurple-bin:
libpurple-bin depends on libpurple0; however:
Package libpurple0 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing libpurple-bin (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Setting up libsnmp-base (5.4.3~dfsg-2) ...
Setting up libsnmp15 (5.4.3~dfsg-2) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of pidgin:
pidgin depends on pidgin-data (>= 2.7.9); however:
Version of pidgin-data on system is 2.7.7-1.
pidgin depends on libpurple0 (>= 2.7.0); however:
Package libpurple0 is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing pidgin (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Setting up dselect (1.15.8.8) ...
Setting up dpkg-dev (1.15.8.8) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
libpurple0
libpurple-bin
pidgin