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[Lucas]

Un beau jour, "Lane P. Lester" <llester at simpub.com> nous a dit:

> E: Broken packages

I had this one too, i just "followed" the chain : i apt-get-ed all
missing packages one by one, apt-get telling me that a given package
needs another, and then apt-getting the needed one, and so on...

> ------------------------------------------------
>
> So I tried 
> LC2:~# apt-get install xfce4-mcs-plugins
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> The following extra packages will be installed:
>   libxfce4mcs-client-1 libxfce4mcs-manager-1 libxfce4util-1
> libxfcegui4-1  xfce4-mcs-manager xfwm4
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
>   xfwm4-themes
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>   libxfce4mcs-client-1 libxfce4mcs-manager-1 libxfce4util-1
> libxfcegui4-1  xfce4-mcs-manager xfce4-mcs-plugins
> 1 packages upgraded, 6 newly installed, 1 to remove and 539 not
> upgraded. Need to get 1718kB of archives.
> After unpacking 7336kB disk space will be freed.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y
>
> That looked good to me, but I got a flock of errors, which were mostly
> like this one:
> Selecting previously deselected package libxfce4util-1.
> (Reading database ... 105184 files and directories currently installed.)
> Unpacking libxfce4util-1 (from
> .../libxfce4util-1_4.0.0.final-1_i386.deb) ... dpkg: error processing
> /var/cache/apt/archives/libxfce4util-1_4.0.0.final-1_i386.deb
> (--unpack): trying to overwrite `/usr/share/xfce4/i18n/nls.alias', which
> is also in package libxfce4util

Well, i didn't have this one... try removing libxfce4util, and
reinstall it after that apt-get, to see

Good luck
-- 
Lucas