Help - running into trouble updating Xubuntu

[Carsten Agger]

Carsten Agger wrote:
> I'm running Xubuntu dapper and trying to update to Edgy.
> 
Pls. can somebody help I don't know how to get any further
and I don't know if it's safe to boot my computer or not ...

> After following the instructions on
> 
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EdgyUpgrades?#head-d8c4cd1dd987e54723fef2760b37f9279487551f
> 
> I'm getting this output from dpkg --configure -a:
> --------
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libxdmcp6:
>   libxdmcp6 depends on x11-common (>= 1:7.0.0); however:
>    Version of x11-common on system is 7.0.0-0ubuntu45.
> dpkg: error processing libxdmcp6 (--configure):
>   dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of xutils-dev:
>   xutils-dev depends on x11-common (>= 1:7.0.0); however:
>    Version of x11-common on system is 7.0.0-0ubuntu45.
> dpkg: error processing xutils-dev (--configure):
>   dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
> dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of xutils:
>   xutils depends on xutils-dev; however:
>    Package xutils-dev is not configured yet.
> dpkg: error processing xutils (--configure):
>   dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>   libxdmcp6
>   xutils-dev
>   xutils
> -------
> 
> 
> What's the problem here?
> 
> If I try to remedy the problem with a sudo apt-get -f install,
> 
> here's what I get:
> agger at mahadev:~$ sudo apt-get  -f install
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... Done
> Correcting dependencies...Done
> The following extra packages will be installed:
>    x11-common
> The following packages will be upgraded:
>    x11-common
> 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 766 not upgraded.
> 3 not fully installed or removed.
> Need to get 0B/291kB of archives.
> After unpacking 418kB of additional disk space will be used.
> Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
> Preconfiguring packages ...
> (Reading database ... 82794 files and directories currently installed.)
> Preparing to replace x11-common 7.0.0-0ubuntu45 (using 
> .../x11-common_1%3a7.1.1ubuntu6_i386.deb) ...
> Unpacking replacement x11-common ...
> Replacing files in old package xinit ...
> dpkg: error processing 
> /var/cache/apt/archives/x11-common_1%3a7.1.1ubuntu6_i386.deb (--unpack):
>   trying to overwrite `/usr/X11R6/bin', which is also in package xli
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>   /var/cache/apt/archives/x11-common_1%3a7.1.1ubuntu6_i386.deb
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> 
> 
> What's the problem? Should I reboot my system as is (I really don't feel 
> like doing that ...!) or can the situation be fixed somehow?
> 
> 


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