apt-get/dpkg broken, will not install programs, dead-locked
I've had a copy of Knoppix since I found it back in January. I later burned a newer copy of the software in March, but I don't know from which month the CD is. In any case, my OS (ME) crapped out, so I got XP, which then also was a pain in the butt. My hard drive has been failing for months, and now it's gotten worse. It now says "failure may be imminent" on bootup. I installed Knoppix as a last resort. Not that I don't like Linux
Now I've done a hard drive install using "knx-hdinstall". I tried using "reiserfs" as the filesystem, but it did not complete the file copy. I had to restart and boot up knoppix again and then choose a different fs (in an attempt to get it to work). I choose ext3. No luck. I then choose ext2, but no luck eiher. Finally I choose reiserFS again and it worked. During the file copy it said a few "input/output errors" from "cp: such and such GNUfoobar/README input/output error". This was bad and strange since the CD is not even a year old and has no major scratches.
I'm up and running now, but not exactly running. I've done apt-get update and apt-get upgrade, with a bunch of difficulty. It had a problem with a mergelist and I ended up somehow fixing that by deleting the file that was the mergelist. Now it works.
However, apt-get will not install stuff. I thought apt-get upgrade would install the latest mozilla, but it didn't. Must be something about "holds" or something.
Here are the outputs I get (please dont' bother me for using root):
root@Harkonnen:~# apt-get install mozilla
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... 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.
Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:
Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
mozilla: Depends: mozilla-browser (= 2:1.4-4)
Depends: mozilla-mailnews (= 2:1.4-4) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: mozilla-psm (= 2:1.4-4) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: mozilla-xft (= 2:1.4-4) but it is not going to be installed
E: Sorry, broken packages
root@Harkonnen:~#
Also, running "apt-get install -t mozilla" doesn't give any sucess either.
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
kde-i18n-de
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 788 not upgraded.
2 packages not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 19.8MB will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y
(Reading database ... 112084 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing kde-i18n-de ...
dpkg: error processing kde-i18n-de (--remove):
failed to rmdir/unlink `/usr/share/doc/kde/HTML/de/kenolaba/common.dpkg-tmp': Permission denied
Errors were encountered while processing:
kde-i18n-de
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
root@Harkonnen:~#
Help! apt-get wont' work!
