I have been updating my machine and trying to make my machine from
stable to etch.

This is my sources.list file

<code>
#deb file:///cdrom/ sarge main

deb http://debian.uchicago.edu/debian/ stable main
deb-src http://debian.uchicago.edu/debian/ stable main

deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main

#deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ sarge main

deb http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux...butions/debian/ etch main
deb-src http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux...butions/debian/ etch
main

deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main

#Stable
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian stable main non-free contrib
#deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib
non-free

#Testing
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian testing main non-free contrib
#deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US testing/non-US main contrib
non-free

#Unstable
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian unstable main non-free contrib
#deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/non-US main
contrib non-free
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Now I just did an apt-get dist-upgrade.
I know it's not anything to do with my computer's config it self but
something with apt-get or the sources because I have two computers
doing this.

After apt-get dist-upgrade and I did apt-get -f install to try again, I
just get this:

<code>
TVMachine:~# 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.
libx11-6: Depends: x11-common (> 4.3.0) but it is not installed
xfree86-common: Depends: x11-common but it is not installed
xserver-common: Depends: x11-common (>= 6.8.1) but it is not
installed
xutils: Depends: x11-common (>= 6.8.1) but it is not installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.
TVMachine:~# apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Correcting dependencies...Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
x11-common
Suggested packages:
x-window-system-core x-window-system
The following NEW packages will be installed
x11-common
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 5 not upgraded.
126 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/1124kB of archives.
After unpacking 1647kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 35269 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking x11-common (from .../x11-common_6.9.0.dfsg.1-4_all.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing
/var/cache/apt/archives/x11-common_6.9.0.dfsg.1-4_all.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite `/etc/X11/Xsession', which is also in package
xfree86-common
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/x11-common_6.9.0.dfsg.1-4_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
TVMachine:~#
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This is the main error that will not go away
" trying to overwrite `/etc/X11/Xsession', which is also in package
xfree86-common"

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On 7 Mar 2006 13:10:12 -0800, ZeroOneTwoThree@gmail.com
<ZeroOneTwoThree@gmail.com> wrote:
> dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  /var/cache/apt/archives/x11-common_6.9.0.dfsg.1-4_all.deb
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> TVMachine:~#
><code>
>
>
> This is the main error that will not go away
> " trying to overwrite `/etc/X11/Xsession', which is also in package
> xfree86-common"
>
apt-get remove --purge xfree86-common


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It just says do apt-get -f install first.

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This is all I get.

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This is all I get.

TVMachine:~# 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.
libx11-6: Depends: x11-common (> 4.3.0) but it is not installed
xfree86-common: Depends: x11-common but it is not installed
xserver-common: Depends: x11-common (>= 6.8.1) but it is not
installed
xutils: Depends: x11-common (>= 6.8.1) but it is not installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.

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