Cyclic dependency? How could this happen?
Mike Bird
mgb-ubuntu at yosemite.net
Fri Apr 28 03:15:35 UTC 2006
On Thu, 2006-04-27 at 20:02, toylet wrote:
> root at server:/var/run/proftpd # dpkg -r proftpd-common
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent removal of proftpd-common:
> proftpd depends on proftpd-common (=
> 1.2.10-22).
> dpkg: error processing proftpd-common (--remove):
> dependency problems - not removing
> Errors were encountered while processing:
> proftpd-common
> root at server:/var/run/proftpd # dpkg -r proftpd
>
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent removal of proftpd:
> proftpd-common depends on proftpd | proftpd-mysql | proftpd-pgsql |
> proftpd-ldap; however:
> Package proftpd is to be removed.
> Package proftpd-mysql is not installed.
>
> Package proftpd-pgsql is not installed.
> Package proftpd-ldap is not installed.
> dpkg: error processing proftpd (--remove):
> dependency problems - not removing
> Errors were encountered while processing:
Recent Debian-based distributions typically have cliques of
cyclic dependencies numbering in the low hundreds.
Try "dpkg -r proftpd proftpd-common". Sometimes you have
to issue such commands twice.
--Mike Bird
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