On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 03:58:14PM +0100, Peter Cannon wrote: > I get a different problem I get: > > # apt-get dist-upgrade > 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: > synaptic: Depends: librpm-4.2.so > Depends: librpmdb-4.2.so > Depends: librpmio-4.2.so > E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f. > > I havent the foggiest what it means seeing as its apt I'm trying to upgrade? You have to probably update RPM and it's dependencies before trying to do an 'apt-get dist-upgrade'.