re-install to fix dependencies?

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Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2005 11:44:29 -0700 (PDT)
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Hello

I am having some trouble trying to fix my system
dependencies.
I know that because disturbing output of the following
two commands which I included at the end of this post.
# apt-get -f install
# apt-cache unmet | grep Depends

I had a working system and all was
good,testing/2.6.13, the problems started when I
inserted a unstable line in my source.list file and
did apt-get update then apt-get -t unstable install
maxima "which exists in stable and unstable only".

I needed the latest release so I did not use stable
for maxima, as a result of trying to install unstable
maxima, lately it tried to remove sawfish-gnome by
deleting some of the files which belong to
sawfish-gnome. don't remember what happened after
that but I tried to fix the dependencies many times
for few weeks now, for no avail, in my effort trying I
did
# apt-get dist-upgrade to unstable thinking by
reinstalling a fresh upgraded version from testing to
unstable, that would fix it. but I did not continue
and cut that after few minuets of starting it after
reading that this is not needed.

so after I escrowed up my system, un-willingly, I did
lots of reading from the online doc on my system but
could not figure out the whole picture to find a
method to approach this problem.

do I need to delete all the index files since they may
be mixed up between testing and unstable as a result
of what escrow-up I did? if so, where are they?

could some one give some hints or something on how to
go with this.

thanks

******************apt-get -f install*****************
$su
# apt-get -f install
 apt-get -f install
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  sawfish-gnome
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 14 not
upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 3577kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
(Reading database ... 74822 files and directories
currently installed.)
Removing sawfish-gnome ...
update-alternatives: --slave only allowed with
--install

Debian update-alternatives 1.13.11.
Copyright (C) 1995 Ian Jackson.
Copyright (C) 2000-2002 Wichert Akkerman
This is free software; see the GNU General Public
Licence
version 2 or later for copying conditions. There is
NO warranty.

Usage: update-alternatives --install <link> <name>
<path> <priority>
                          [--slave <link> <name>
<path>] ...
       update-alternatives --remove <name> <path>
       update-alternatives --remove-all <name>
       update-alternatives --auto <name>
       update-alternatives --display <name>
       update-alternatives --list <name>
       update-alternatives --config <name>
       update-alternatives --set <name> <path>
       update-alternatives --all
<name> is the name in /etc/alternatives.
<path> is the name referred to.
<link> is the link pointing to
/etc/alternatives/<name>.
<priority> is an integer; options with higher numbers
are chosen.

Options: --verbose|--quiet --test --help --version
          --altdir <directory> --admindir <directory>
dpkg: error processing sawfish-gnome (--remove):
 subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit
status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
 sawfish-gnome
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code
(1)

**********$ apt-cache unmet | grep Depends **********
 Depends: python2.2-crypto
 Depends: kdevelop-data
 Depends: ghc6 (< 6.2.2-999)
 Depends: libqt3-mt (>= 3:3.3.4)
 Depends: libexif10
 Depends: kdewebdev
 Depends: mplayer (>= 1.0-pre5) | mplayer-custom (>=
1.0-pre5) | mplayer-386 (>= 1.0-pre5) | mplayer-586
(>= 1.0-pre5) | mplayer-686 (>= 1.0-pre5) | mplayer-k6
(>= 1.0-pre5) | mplayer-k7 (>= 1.0-pre5) |
mplayer-powerpc (>= 1.0-pre5) | mplayer-g4 (>=
1.0-pre5) | mplayer-amd64 (>= 1.0-pre5) |
mplayer-nogui (>= 1.0-pre5)
 Depends: kdelibs3-bin (= 4:2.2.2-13.woody.8)
 Depends: libkmid-dev (= 4:2.2.2-13.woody.8)
 Depends: libqt-dev (>= 3:2.3.1-18)
 Depends: uic (>= 3:2.3.1-1) | kde-designer
 Depends: mplayer

        
                
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