I tried to install libboost and it failed. Now I'm getting the error that there are unmet dependencies and I cannot do anything involving upgrading or installing packages.
I run sudo apt-get -f install as recommended in the messages but I get the errors
root@IM-EPI140:~# apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
libboost1.42-dev
Suggested packages:
libboost1.42-doc libboost-date-time1.42-dev libboost-filesystem1.42-dev
libboost-graph1.42-dev libboost-iostreams1.42-dev libboost-math1.42-dev
libboost-program-options1.42-dev libboost-python1.42-dev
libboost-regex1.42-dev libboost-serialization1.42-dev
libboost-signals1.42-dev libboost-system1.42-dev libboost-thread1.42-dev
libboost-wave1.42-dev docbook-xsl fop
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libboost1.42-dev
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 28 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/6,624 kB of archives.
After this operation, 68.9 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y
dpkg: regarding .../libboost1.42-dev_1.42.0-4ubuntu2_amd64.deb containing libboost1.42-dev:
libboost1.42-dev conflicts with libboost-dev (<< 1.35.0)
libboost-dev:i386 (version 1.34.1-15ubuntu3) is present and unpacked but not configured.
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libboost1.42-dev_1.42.0-4ubuntu2_amd64.deb (--unpack):
conflicting packages - not installing libboost1.42-dev
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/libboost1.42-dev_1.42.0-4ubuntu2_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
How do I fix this?
sudo dpkg-reconfigure -a? – Juan Sebastian Totero Jul 28 '11 at 22:10sudo apt-get purge libboost-devand then an installation oflibboost-1.42-dev? – Pavlos G. Jul 28 '11 at 22:20