[PLUG] broken X server

[Shameel Arafin <algebraist@gmail.com>]

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Hi all. I was doing a smart upgrade in Synaptic, and seem to have broken
X. I have Debian unstable running on my desktop, with Gnome and Fluxbox.

apt-get upgrade yields the following:

Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  libdps1: Depends: xfree86-common but it is not installed
  libxft1: Depends: xfree86-common but it is not installed
  libxp6: Depends: xfree86-common but it is not installed
  xfonts-100dpi: Depends: xfree86-common but it is not installed
  xfonts-75dpi: Depends: xfree86-common but it is not installed
  xfonts-base: Depends: xfree86-common but it is not installed
  xfonts-scalable: Depends: xfree86-common but it is not installed
  xlibmesa-dri: Depends: xfree86-common but it is not installed
  xlibmesa-glu: Depends: xfree86-common but it is not installed
  xlibs-data: Depends: xcursor-themes but it is not installed
  xlibs-static-dev: Depends: xfree86-common but it is not installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.


apt-get -f install yields the following:

Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  libfontenc-dev libfreetype6-dev libglu1-mesa libxfont-dev libxp6
  x11proto-fonts-dev xcursor-themes xfonts-100dpi xfonts-75dpi xfonts-base
  xfonts-scalable xlibmesa-dri xlibmesa-glu xlibs-static-dev
Suggested packages:
  xfs xserver libglide3 xspecs
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  libdps1 libmagick6 libxft1
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libfontenc-dev libfreetype6-dev libglu1-mesa libxfont-dev
x11proto-fonts-dev
  xcursor-themes
The following packages will be upgraded:
  libxp6 xfonts-100dpi xfonts-75dpi xfonts-base xfonts-scalable xlibmesa-dri
  xlibmesa-glu xlibs-static-dev
8 upgraded, 6 newly installed, 3 to remove and 530 not upgraded.
110 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/15.6MB of archives.
After unpacking 14.4MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y
(Reading database ... 85961 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking xcursor-themes (from .../xcursor-themes_1.0.1-4_all.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing
/var/cache/apt/archives/xcursor-themes_1.0.1-4_all.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite `/etc/X11/cursors/core.theme', which is also in
package xlibs-data
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/xcursor-themes_1.0.1-4_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Not too sure about how to resolve this. Any ideas?

Thanks,

Shameel
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