dpkg problems

[Luke Davis]

Have you tried just adding the group "debian-exim"?

Given the number of un-upgraded packages it lists, it sounds even more as 
if you tried to get a single package from unstable.
If you reset sources.list, and do an apt-get -q update, then something 
like:

dpkg --force-depends -p exim4

might work.

Warning: this syntax is all off the top of my head, and could stand some 
verification from man pages.

Send us your sources.list.

Are you trying to run a stable, unstable, or testing system?

Luke

On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Scott Howell wrote:

> Sorry folks I'm using two different matchines to read and respond to
> mail. I have a very borken Exim on the problem box so this is getting
> fun.
> I did as Cheryl suggested and forgot to mention that apt-get -f install
> did the following. First when I ran apt-get install exim4 which was the
> offending pkg, I got
>
> You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these:
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>  at: Depends: mail-transport-agent
>  exim4: Depends: exim4-base (>= 4.34) but it is not going to be
> installed
>         Depends: exim4-daemon-light but it is not going to be installed
> or
>                  exim4-daemon-heavy but it is not going to be installed
> or
>                  exim4-daemon-custom but it is not installable
> E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or
> specify a solution
>
> when I run apt-get -f install no package name
>
> Correcting dependencies... Done
> The following extra packages will be installed:
>  exim4 exim4-base exim4-config exim4-daemon-light
> Suggested packages:
>  eximon4 exim4-doc-html exim4-doc-info
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>  exim4 exim4-base exim4-config exim4-daemon-light
> 0 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 278 not upgraded.
> Need to get 0B/1303kB of archives.
> After unpacking 2814kB of additional disk space will be used.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
> Preconfiguring packages ...
> dpkg: syntax error: unknown group `Debian-exim' in statusoverride file
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
>
> So there ya go and this is where I'm stuck. I am sure there's a fix
> here, but I'm not seeing it.
>
> tnx and keep those suggestions coming, I am sure one will fix this
> mess.<grin> then I'll stop breaking stuff.hahah
>
> Scott
>
>
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