package installation problem

[John Heim]

At 02:44 PM 4/17/2006, Charles Hallenbeck wrote:
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>Can someone please advise me what to do? I have been living happily with
>the Debian unstable distro for some time, but got bitten recently. The
>package "manpages-dev" was being upgraded along with a bunch of other
>stuff, and it failed with an error. I tried a number of things,
>including doing a remove and purge and a new install of the package, and
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I  am not sure what modutils is but you may be able to purge and/or remove 
modutils, install  manpages-dev, and then re-install modutils. Modutils 
sounds like something important though and you may not be able to remove that.

PS: Somebody else mentioned that this is why they don't use the unstable 
version of debian... Well, I've had this come up recently with the stable 
version. Different packages but same problem.  X11-common wouldn't install 
because it wanted to create a file that was in XF86Free. Of course, I don't 
use X but zinf wanted it installed.