title: My apt got messed up installing boost
body: <p>On ubuntu</p>
  
  <pre><code>#&gt; sudo apt-get install libboost-all-dev
  
  Reading package lists... Done
  Building dependency tree       
  Reading state information... Done
  You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these:
  The following packages have unmet dependencies.
   libboost-all-dev : Depends: libboost-dev but it is not going to be installed
                      Depends: libboost-atomic-dev but it is not going to be installed
                      Depends: libboost-chrono-dev but it is not going to be installed
                      Depends: libboost-context-dev but it is not going to be installed
                      Depends: libboost-date-time-dev but it is not going to be installed
                      Depends: libboost-exception-dev but it is not going to be installed
                      Depends: libboost-filesystem-dev but it is not going to be installed
                      Depends: libboost-graph-dev but it is not going to be installed
                      Depends: libboost-graph-parallel-dev but it is not going to be installed
                      Depends: libboost-iostreams-dev but it is not going to be installed
                      Depends: libboost-locale-dev but it is not going to be installed
                      Depends: libboost-math-dev but it is not going to be installed
                      Depends: libboost-mpi-dev but it is not going to be installed
                      Depends: libboost-mpi-python-dev but it is not going to be installed
                      Depends: libboost-program-options-dev but it is not going to be installed
                      Depends: libboost-python-dev but it is not going to be installed
                      Depends: libboost-random-dev but it is not going to be installed
                      Depends: libboost-regex-dev but it is not going to be installed
                      Depends: libboost-serialization-dev but it is not going to be installed
                      Depends: libboost-signals-dev but it is not going to be installed
                      Depends: libboost-system-dev but it is not going to be installed
                      Depends: libboost-test-dev but it is not going to be installed
                      Depends: libboost-thread-dev but it is not going to be installed
                      Depends: libboost-timer-dev but it is not going to be installed
                      Depends: libboost-wave-dev but it is not going to be installed
   libboost-chrono1.54-dev : Depends: libboost1.54-dev (= 1.54.0-2ubuntu3) but it is not going to be installed
   libboost-date-time1.54-dev : Depends: libboost1.54-dev (= 1.54.0-2ubuntu3) but it is not going to be installed
   libboost-exception1.54-dev : Depends: libboost1.54-dev (= 1.54.0-2ubuntu3) but it is not going to be installed
   libboost-filesystem1.54-dev : Depends: libboost1.54-dev (= 1.54.0-2ubuntu3) but it is not going to be installed
   libboost-graph-parallel1.54-dev : Depends: libboost1.54-dev (= 1.54.0-2ubuntu3) but it is not going to be installed
   libboost-graph1.54-dev : Depends: libboost1.54-dev (= 1.54.0-2ubuntu3) but it is not going to be installed
   libboost-iostreams1.54-dev : Depends: libboost1.54-dev (= 1.54.0-2ubuntu3) but it is not going to be installed
   libboost-locale1.54-dev : Depends: libboost1.54-dev (= 1.54.0-2ubuntu3) but it is not going to be installed
   libboost-log1.54-dev : Depends: libboost1.54-dev (= 1.54.0-2ubuntu3) but it is not going to be installed
   libboost-math1.54-dev : Depends: libboost1.54-dev (= 1.54.0-2ubuntu3) but it is not going to be installed
   libboost-mpi1.54-dev : Depends: libboost1.54-dev (= 1.54.0-2ubuntu3) but it is not going to be installed
   libboost-program-options1.54-dev : Depends: libboost1.54-dev (= 1.54.0-2ubuntu3) but it is not going to be installed
   libboost-python1.54-dev : Depends: libboost1.54-dev (= 1.54.0-2ubuntu3) but it is not going to be installed
   libboost-random1.54-dev : Depends: libboost1.54-dev (= 1.54.0-2ubuntu3) but it is not going to be installed
   libboost-regex1.54-dev : Depends: libboost1.54-dev (= 1.54.0-2ubuntu3) but it is not going to be installed
   libboost-serialization1.54-dev : Depends: libboost1.54-dev (= 1.54.0-2ubuntu3) but it is not going to be installed
   libboost-signals1.54-dev : Depends: libboost1.54-dev (= 1.54.0-2ubuntu3) but it is not going to be installed
   libboost-system1.54-dev : Depends: libboost1.54-dev (= 1.54.0-2ubuntu3) but it is not going to be installed
   libboost-test1.54-dev : Depends: libboost1.54-dev (= 1.54.0-2ubuntu3) but it is not going to be installed
   libboost-thread1.54-dev : Depends: libboost1.54-dev (= 1.54.0-2ubuntu3) but it is not going to be installed
   libboost-timer1.54-dev : Depends: libboost1.54-dev (= 1.54.0-2ubuntu3) but it is not going to be installed
   libboost-wave1.54-dev : Depends: libboost1.54-dev (= 1.54.0-2ubuntu3) but it is not going to be installed
   libboost1.54-all-dev : Depends: libboost1.54-dev but it is not going to be installed
  E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>That last line: <strong>Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).</strong></p>
  
  <p>Okay.</p>
  
  <pre><code>#&gt; sudo apt-get -f install
  
  Reading package lists... Done
  Building dependency tree       
  Reading state information... Done
  Correcting dependencies... Done
  The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
    libboost-atomic1.53.0 libboost-chrono1.53.0 libboost-context1.53.0 libboost-graph-parallel1.53.0 libboost-graph1.53.0 libboost-iostreams1.53.0 libboost-math1.53.0 libboost-mpi1.53.0 libboost-python1.53.0 libboost-random1.53.0
    libboost-serialization1.53.0 libboost-signals1.53.0 libboost-test1.53.0 libboost-timer1.53.0 libboost-tools-dev libboost-wave1.53.0 libboost1.53-tools-dev openjdk-7-jre-lib
  Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
  The following extra packages will be installed:
    libboost1.54-dev
  Suggested packages:
    libboost1.54-doc libboost-coroutine.54-dev libboost-log.54-dev doxygen default-jdk fop
  The following NEW packages will be installed
    libboost1.54-dev
  0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
  51 not fully installed or removed.
  Need to get 0 B/10.3 MB of archives.
  After this operation, 101 MB of additional disk space will be used.
  Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
  (Reading database ... 253168 files and directories currently installed.)
  Unpacking libboost1.54-dev (from .../libboost1.54-dev_1.54.0-2ubuntu3_i386.deb) ...
  dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libboost1.54-dev_1.54.0-2ubuntu3_i386.deb (--unpack):
   trying to overwrite '/usr/share/boostbook/xsl/docbook-layout.xsl', which is also in package libboost1.53-tools-dev 1.53.0-6+exp3ubuntu8
  dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
  Errors were encountered while processing:
   /var/cache/apt/archives/libboost1.54-dev_1.54.0-2ubuntu3_i386.deb
  E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>How do I get out of this mess? Thanks.</p>