[plug] When apt-get just wont apt-get

[Craig Ringer]

> So i have libpisock4 installed even tho ximian is trying to get me to
> install libpisock3 but now i am unable to apt-get anything else because
> it keeps insisting that i install libpisock3. Evolution works fine so
> what i would like to know is how can i flush apt-get so that it wont
> keep asking me to install this package?

The Ximian packages are dodgy, it seems, and try to replace a std debian 
libs pacakge with a conflicting and incompatable one. Presumably there 
are packages from the main archive that depend on "libpisock3" but the 
ximian packages insist on 4 yet don't rename the lib files. Big no-no to 
have a new pkg name but conflicting file locations, at least it is for 
libraries.

You _can_ force dpkg to overwrite the library, but this could cause all 
sorts of nasty breakage. You could also force dpkg to purge the ximian 
"libpisock4" and then apt-get install libpisock3 and see if it works ok 
with the ximian packaged apps. Once again, possible system breakage is 
risked.

The best way IMHO:
	 dpkg --purge <everything Ximian>
	 remove the Ximian lines from sources.list
	 apt-get update then apt-get install evolution
(to get the properly packaged Evolution in the debian archives)

Why do you want Ximian's version instead? Is there something better 
about it?

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Craig Ringer
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