Upgrade to Edgy failing on X11R6 error

[Peter Garrett]

On Wed, 17 Jan 2007 23:07:33 +0900
Dave M G <martin at autotelic.com> wrote:

> After much file by file removal, I've seemingly got the errors down to 
> two packages that are blocking me from upgrading to Edgy.

Try running 

sudo aptitude dist-upgrade

and 

sudo apt-get -f install

alternately , until the system sorts itself out ;-)

The idea of re-running dist-upgrade is that if needed, it should remove as
well as install packages - and the idea of using aptitude
dist-upgrade rather than apt-get is that aptitude is a bit smarter, to put
it in highly technical terms ;-)

With luck, this approach will eventually result in 0 packages to install, 0
to remove 0 to upgrade etc  - then you will know that your ordeal is
over....

Of course, I may be wrong, and this might not do it for you, but it's worth
a shot !

Peter