haytham’s blog

So you’re in your fresh Debian sarge (stable) installation and you want to upgrade to testing or unstable and the first thing you try to do is to [code] apt-get dist-upgrade [/code] but you’re shocked to see an error message that says:

E: This installation run will require temporarily removing
the essential package perl-base due to a Conflicts/Pre-Depends
loop. This is often bad, but if you really want to do it,
activate the APT::Force-LoopBreak option.

So the first step to fix that is to upgrade the following packages: e2fslibs, e2fsprogs, libc6 and finally libc6-dev. To do that, you need to insert a special option in apt that will allow you to by pass the Force-LoopBreak issue by issuing the following command:

apt-get -o apt::force-loopbreak=true install e2fslibs e2fsprogs libc6 libc6-dev

once this is done, you can go on by issuing apt-get dist-upgrade

enjoy !

Filed by haytham at 4:37 pm under Linux HOWTOs / Tutorials