Force-LoopBreak

**gauri** · 11-09-2005

Hi All,

I am unable to run

apt-get -o APT::Force-LoopBreak=1

Thansk & Regards
Gauri Agrawal

**gauri** · 11-09-2005

Hi All,

I still didnt get reply,,,is the problem so difficult??

I am new user of Debian and installed Debian on i386 machine. Now i am trying to install few packages one by one.
While doing that I am getting the following error:

================================================== =========
E: This installation run will require temporarily removing
the essential package e2fsprogs 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.
E: Internal Error, Could not early remove e2fsprogs

So for that I tried to activate Force-LoopBreak option on by the following command on command line prompt:
================================================== ==========

apt-get -o APT::Force-LoopBreak=1

However, I try putting "true", "True", "TRUE", "0", =true, =TRUE, =True, =1, =0 none of these work.

Regards,
Gauri

**eerok** · 11-09-2005

Try with the full command line; right now you're apt-getting nothing ...

Code:

apt-get -o APT&#58;&#58;Force-LoopBreak=1 install prog

where "prog" is what you're trying to install

However, there's no guarantee you won't break something. Make sure you have e2fsprogs restored before you reboot.

Here's a ref to another discussion of the problem:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/history/366925

(google is your friend)

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**gauri** · 11-10-2005

thanks a lot it is working now, but can u plz explain me why it is working when i am giving two commands together.

Thanks & Regards
Gauri Agrawal

**eerok** · 11-10-2005

Originally Posted by gauri

can u plz explain me why it is working when i am giving two commands together.

It's only one command; the "-o APT::Force-LoopBreak=1" is an option passed to apt-get. So you're just doing

Code:

apt-get &#91;option&#93; install prog

**gauri** · 11-10-2005

Thanks a lot.

Regards
Gauri

**NullDevice** · 11-28-2005

Hi,

Im having the same problem with e2fsprogs, with exactly the same error message.
Now i did a

Code:

apt-get -o APT&#58;&#58;Force-LoopBreak=yes install e2fsprogs

.. but the result was, after some actions:

Code:

Setting up lsb-base &#40;3.0-11&#41; ...
dpkg&#58; dependency problems prevent configuration of initscripts&#58;
 initscripts depends on e2fsprogs &#40;>= 1.19-1&#41;; however&#58;
  Package e2fsprogs is not installed.
dpkg&#58; error processing initscripts &#40;--configure&#41;&#58;
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing&#58;
 initscripts
E&#58; Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code &#40;1&#41;

Ok, can someone PLEASE tell me what i could try. I don't wanna break that system (or did it already?)

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