[Bug 723025] Re: cannot remove xz-utils

[Rolf Leggewie]

Sorry to say, but you are tinkering with your computer way beyond your
skill level, it seems. It's thus not a bug when you shoot yourself in
the foot in the process.

"dpkg : PreDepends: xz-utils"  Why on earth are you trying to remove it?

** Changed in: xz-utils (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Invalid

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Title:
  cannot remove xz-utils

Status in xz-utils package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: xz-utils

  Ubuntu 10.10 i386. I installed xz-utils package yesterday by 'apt-get
  install xz-utils'

  Some program deleted my /dev/null yesterday. When I tried to reinstall
  packages I installed yestarday I found I cannot remove xz-utils
  package; package is broken:

  # apt-cache show xz-utils | grep Version
  Version: 4.999.9beta+20100527-1

  # apt-get remove xz-utils
  Reading package lists... Done
  Building dependency tree
  Reading state information... Done
  Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
  requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
  distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
  or been moved out of Incoming.
  The following information may help to resolve the situation:

  The following packages have unmet dependencies:
   dpkg : PreDepends: xz-utils but it is not going to be installed
   erlang-syntax-tools : Depends: erlang-base (= 1:13.b.3-dfsg-2ubuntu3) but it is not going to be installed or
                                  erlang-base-hipe (= 1:13.b.3-dfsg-2ubuntu3) but it is not going to be installed
   librdf0 : Depends: libraptor1 (>= 1.4.19) but it is not going to be installed
             Depends: librasqal2 (>= 0.9.18) but it is not going to be installed
   libsdl1.2debian : Depends: libsdl1.2debian-alsa (= 1.2.14-6ubuntu3) but it is not going to be installed or
                              libsdl1.2debian-all (= 1.2.14-6ubuntu3) but it is not going to be installed or
                              libsdl1.2debian-esd (= 1.2.14-6ubuntu3) but it is not going to be installed or
                              libsdl1.2debian-oss (= 1.2.14-6ubuntu3) but it is not going to be installed or
                              libsdl1.2debian-nas (= 1.2.14-6ubuntu3) but it is not going to be installed or
                              libsdl1.2debian-pulseaudio (= 1.2.14-6ubuntu3) but it is not going to be installed
   openjdk-6-jre : Depends: libasound2 (> 1.0.22)
                   Depends: libpulse0 (>= 0.9.16) but it is not going to be installed
                   Depends: libxtst6 but it is not going to be installed
                   Depends: libaccess-bridge-java-jni but it is not going to be installed
   openjdk-6-jre-headless : Depends: openjdk-6-jre-lib (>= 6b20-1.9.5-0ubuntu1) but it is not going to be installed
                            Depends: ca-certificates-java but it is not going to be installed
                            Depends: tzdata-java but it is not going to be installed
                            Recommends: icedtea-6-jre-cacao (= 6b20-1.9.5-0ubuntu1) but it is not going to be installed
   soprano-daemon : Depends: libraptor1 (>= 1.4.19) but it is not going to be installed
  E: Broken packages

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